Spike Lee‘s next joint for Netflix is called Katrina: Come Hell and High Water — one of three documentaries planned for the streamer in 2025.
Lee’s doc will revisit the hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and more than $100 billion in damages in 2005. The official logline for the doc set to drop in August says the “hurricane turned cataclysmic through human error and neglect. Over the course of a gripping and emotional three episodes, the people of New Orleans recount their past, extoll their present and lean into the future of what they and their beloved city survived and have become 20 years later. The series sets the stage for a tragedy — whose man-made elements expose the systemic governmental neglect that led to the city being defenseless in the face of the storm — and Katrina’s devastating impact that changed New Orleans irreparably. Detailed, harrowing and triumphant first-person accounts and never before seen archive illustrate the magnitude of Katrina, the aftermath of the levees breaking and the bungled recovery.”
Alisa Payne serves as showrunner/producer on the doc, while Lee directs with Greta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles. Lee EPs while Sam Pollard produces.
Other docs planned for Netflix in 2025 are American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, which is a limited series that gives an “in-depth look at how the world mobilized to hunt down Osama Bin Laden after his orchestrations of the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the United States.” It drops March 10.
The other borrows from the title of Gillian Flynn’s 2014 psychological thriller and is called Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer. From Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (Lost Girls), the three, 50-minute episodes looks back at the women who disappeared from New York City and Long Island, before the 2010 discovery of female remains found in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island lead authorities to believe the deaths were all connected.
Gargus also EPs along with Dan Cogan, Anne Carey, Jon Bardin and Mala Chapple. It’s from Story Syndicate. No drop date was revealed.
