The follow-up Spike Lee joint to his Academy Award-winning, Blackkklansman has its first trailer. Da 5 Bloods, directed by Lee, tells the story of four black veterans who go back to Vietnam to find the remains of their fallen squad leader, as well as a trunk full of gold that they buried in the Vietnamese jungle during the war.
Lee previously told Vanity Fair.
“The United States Armed Forces came close to being torn apart when black soldiers heard that Dr. King was assassinated,”
“They also heard that their brothers and sisters were tearing shit up in over 100 cities across America. The tipping point came very close; the black soldiers were getting ready to set it off in Vietnam—and not against the Vietcong either.”
Da 5 Bloods stars Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, and Isiah Whitlock, Jr. as the vets who return to Vietnam. The film will be available on Netflix on June 12.
