Lee will also produce and write Da 5 Bloods with Kevin Willmott from a script by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo and Matthew Billingsly.
“To quote my brother Jay-Z from Da People’s Republic of Brooklyn ‘On to Da Next One,’” Lee said.
Boseman joins Delroy Lindo, who previously worked with Lee on Clockers, Crooklyn and Malcolm X; and Jean Reno in the film.
According to the Variety, Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman has signed on to star in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods at Netflix, a drama about “Vietnam veterans who go back to the jungle to find their lost innocence.”