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Lee will direct all episodes for the series, which is his first.
Netflix is now in the Spike Lee business.
The streamer has greenlit a new series based on the filmmaker's 1986 indie film She's Gotta Have It, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Similar to the premise of the film, the series centers on Nola Darling, a Brooklyn-based artist in her late 20s struggling to define herself and divide her time among her friends, her job and her three lovers: the cultured model, Greer Childs; the protective investment banker, Jamie Overstreet; and da original b-boy sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon.
Lee, who created the series, will direct all episodes and exec produce with his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee. Netflix will produce the show, which was originally in development at Showtime in 2014.
The first season will run for 10 episodes.
Lee famously paved the way for African-American independent filmmakers when She's Gotta Have It, shot in just 12 days, went on to gross more than $7 million at the box office. The film nabbed Lee an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award and an Award of the Youth from the Cannes Film Festival.
The pickup comes a month after the film celebrated its 30th anniversary.
The film starred Tracy Camilla Johns as a young, sexually independent woman living in Brooklyn who juggles three suitors (Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Spike Lee).
She's Gotta Have It will mark Lee's first foray into series television. He joins a growing list of acclaimed film writer-directors now headed to the small screen, including Woody Allen (Amazon's A Crisis in Six Scenes) and David O. Russell, who is shopping his first series with stars Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore attached.
TV adaptations of hit films continue to be a hot trend, with remakes of Lethal Weapon, The Exorcist, Training Day and Taken all scheduled to debut on the broadcast networks this upcoming season. Netflix's other TV remakes include Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp and an adaptation of Dear White People.
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