Spike Lee … a movie about Viagra

American director Spike Lee is preparing to present a musical film about Viagra, an impotence drug. This is what the American website “Deadline” revealed, which indicates that this film will be Lee’s next project after Da 5 Bloods and American Utopia, and is based on an article published by Esquire magazine in 2018 titled All Rise. That day, the article recorded the history of the discovery and commercialization of this drug.

Lee is co-writing the script with British playwright Kwame Coy-Armah, Young Vic’s current artistic director, while the music will be written by Stu Stewart and Heidi Rudwald, who previously participated in the 2008 musical Passing Strange that Lee filmed.
In an enthusiastic statement released by Deadline, Lee praised his mother for forcing him to go to the movies as a child and thanked her for helping her overcome her early dislike for musical performances.
It should be noted that sildenafil citrate was originally developed as a potential treatment for angina pectoris in a laboratory in the UK, and was patented by the pharmaceutical giant “Pfizer” in 1996, before going on sale in the United States. in 1998 under the Trademark «Viagra». The drug is estimated to have generated an annual revenue of $ 1.8 billion for Pfizer, although other companies are now allowed to make generic versions of it.