This Looks Fire: Spike Lee And Protege Stefon Bristol Bring Black Sci-Fi Flick “See You Yesterday” To Netflix

December 13, 2018

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‘See You Yesterday’ Film Produced By Spike Lee Lands On Netflix

Just based off the photo alone, Netflix is guaranteed our time when See You Yesterday drops.

Spike Lee and his longtime protege Stefon Bristol have come together as producer and director, respectively, to bring their brand of Black science-fiction to Netflix according to Shadow And Act. The drama will mark Bristol’s directorial debut and will star other first-time flyers Eden Duncan-Smith and Danté Crichlow (seen in above photo).

Spike Lee & @StefonBristol have teamed up for "See You Yesterday," a genre-blending drama that inventively utilizes time-travel to examine the urgent issue of police brutality. Eden Duncan-Smith and Danté Crichlow play scientific geniuses in the 2019 release #NetflixNewsWeek pic.twitter.com/Lx0aasd666

— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) December 12, 2018

The story centers around Eden’s character, Claudette “C.J.” Walker, and Danté’s character, Sebastian J. Thomas, who build time-travel machines in order to save Sebastian’s older brother from being killed by a cop.

Spike and Stefon’s feature-length film is an adaptation from an HBO short film that was a finalist in the American Black Film Festival in 2017. Peep the trailer to the short below.