Spike Lee is reportedly set to direct the Spider-Man spinoff movie Nightwatch for Sony, based on a script that Cheo Hodari Coker is writing.
The rumor that Sony was looking at Lee to helm a Nightwatch solo film first started making the rounds last September.
That Hashtag Show is reporting that Lee has been formally attached to direct Nightwatch from a screenplay by Coker, rather than the project’s previously-reported writer Edward Ricourt.
Sony is currently developing a slate of movies based on antiheroes and/or supporting characters from the Spider-Man comic books.