Spike Lee and Jordan Peele are teaming up to bring a true story about the notorious hate group the Ku Klux Klan to the big screen.
The acclaimed filmmakers will work together on Black Klansman, a crime thriller about an African American police detective who went undercover to infiltrate the KKK by becoming a high ranking member.
Lee will direct and produce while Get Out's Peele will produce the project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Denzel Washington's son and Ballers star John David Washington is in negotiations to take on the leading role in the project.
He would play Ron Stallworth, a Colorado detective who answered an advert in the local newspaper seeking new Klan members in 1978.
Stallworth rose up through the ranks to become the head of the local chapter and was able to gather intelligence by pretending to be a white supremacist on the phone while sending a white police officer in his place to any in-person meetings.
Through his undercover work, Stallworth was able to sabotage several cross-burnings and other activities by the hate group.
The screenplay has been adapted from Stallworth's 2014 autobiography of the same name.
Black Klansman is scheduled to begin shooting this autumn.
