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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Spike Lee is going to write and direct an adaptation of Ron Wimberly’s graphic novel Prince Of Cats, which made our list of the best comics of the decade earlier this week. THR describes the story as an “‘80s-set hip-hop take on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet,” and it’s told from the perspective of Tybalt, “Juliet’s angry and duel-loving cousin.” That may seem odd, but it was the ‘80s, and everybody was obsessed with duels back then. Duran Duran and duels. Wimberly and writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds will “work with” Lee on the script, which is presumably the polite way of saying that they will co-write it but he’s Spike Lee so he’s earned top billing no matter what.