SPIKE LEE - LEE STILL KEEN TO MAKE JAMES BROWN BIOPIC WITH SNIPES

LEE STILL KEEN TO MAKE JAMES BROWN BIOPIC WITH SNIPES

SPIKE LEE insists his JAMES BROWN biopic will get made - even though his star, WESLEY SNIPES, is facing a three-year prison spell. Snipes, who was convicted of federal income tax evasion last year (08), is free pending an appeal - and he remains director Lee's first choice to play the late soul man.
Lee tells MTV News, "We’re doing it together. It’s going to happen.”
And the moviemaker insists he'll be using Brown's vocals in the film, rather than ask the Blade star to mimic the singer.
Lee adds, "I want to hear James Brown’s voice. That’s just my personal taste.”
The Malcolm X director announced his intention to make a James Brown biopic the day after the Godfather of Soul died on Christmas Day 2006.