KU’s Kevin Willmott teams with filmmaker Spike Lee for ‘Chiraq’

BY JON NICCUM
Special to The Star

... “Aristophanes wrote that in 411 B.C. Now that’s a long time ago, but it’s interesting these issues have been going on so long,” Willmott said.

“There is a lot of humor and satire in the movie. The dialogue will be spoken in verse like the play ‘Lysistrata.’ It was disappointing that the city of Chicago immediately assumed the negative about the film and what the name would mean” ...

“The thing Spike and I have in common is, we’re both political junkies,” said Willmott, 56. “We both have strong opinions about things. The subject matter of the film spoke to him — and it’s very much Spike Lee subject matter.”

Willmott says their approach to updating the script became a back-and-forth strategy, with each man alternating rewrites ...

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