Legendary has announced that Spike Lee is set to direct the film adaptation of Ron Wimberly’s graphic novel Prince of Cats, a hip-hop take on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Lee is also working on a rewrite of the script with Wimberly and the screenwriter Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (a former editor of seminal hip-hop magazine The Source).

Prince of Cats is set in the 1980s in “Da People’s Republic of Brooklyn,” and rooted in the hip-hop culture of DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti writing. It follows Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and his Capulet brothers as they duel with the rival Montagues. Straight Outta Compton and Get Out actor Lakeith Stanfield was originally slated to star but is no longer attached to the film.

In July, Netflix cancelled Lee’s series She’s Gotta Have It, itself an adaptation of his 1986 debut film of the same name. His 1989 classic Do The Right Thing recently got a 4K restoration and theatrical run in celebration of its 30th anniversary.