Chiraq Movie in the Works

By the one and only (thank god) Spike Lee?

• Spike Lee, who comes to town later this month as part of the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival (CIMMfest), plans to shoot his next feature film here, as well.
  
  As reported by The Wrap, the project is called "Chiraq" and Lee is making it for Amazon Studios:
  
  "The Oscar-nominated filmmaker is courting Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Piven, Common and Kanye West for the ensemble cast of 'Chiraq,' multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap."
  
  Three of those four names (minus Jackson) are Chicago-area natives.

Gee, we can almost see the plot from here. Sneed gets in on the act, too:

• Now Sneed hears Lee is planning to shoot the film, which will not only focus on violence but how it may be handled effectively, in Chicago.
  
  The director was accompanied by the actors/Chicago natives John and Joan Cusack at Sunday’s Easter Mass at St. Sabina Catholic Church, led by the Rev. Mike Pfleger, the firebrand peace priest.

Because Pfleger has such a handle on violence in and around the parish.

And what is it with every jackass from New York stopping to chat with "Pfather" Pfleger? Is this like some pilgrimage of some sort when visiting the hinterlands? Pfleger giving Spike the scoop on things around town like he did McNewlyWed?

Sneed even speculates that Cusack might be playing some sort of firebrand white priest in the movie, perhaps guiding the benighted black folks (and people) from their path of self destruction and into the light of .... oh wait, it's a Spike Lee joint. Never mind.