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Spike Lee Sets EOne Film Musical On Pfizer’s Pre-COVID Miracle Drug: Viagra

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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: While drug manufacturer Pfizer has lately been getting headlines for its potential breakthrough COVID-19 vaccine, Studio Entertainment One and Spike Lee are prepping an untitled tumescent tuner on the breakthrough of an earlier Pfizer miracle drug: Viagra.

Lee will direct from a screenplay he has written with Kwame Kwei-Armah.The original songs and music will be written by the acclaimed songwriting team of Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald, who previously created the Tony-winning musical Passing Strange.

The musical is based on the David Kushner Esquire article All Rise: The Untold Story of The Guys Who Launched Viagra. It is inspired by the true events surrounding around Pfizer’s discovery.

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