The trades are reporting that Spike Lee’s production company 40 Acres and a Mule has acquired the rights to Brendan Koerner’s nonfiction book Now the Hell Will Start.

The book told the story of World War II private Herman Perry, a black soldier from Washington, who, after shooting another soldier, went on the run in the Indo-Burmese jungle and eventually became assimilated into tribal culture.

Lee’s company is currently working on a Michael Jordan documentary and is also developing a James Brown biopic.