Spike Lee Graces Poster for 2021 Cannes Film Festival

Spike Lee’s gotta have it. The Cannes Film Festival is paying tribute to ground-breaking U.S. director by putting the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Do The Right Thing, BlacKkKlansman, and Ma…

The image shows Lee in his iconic role as Mars Blackmon — the character from his 1986 feature debut, which premiered in Cannes.

Lee revived the Mars character for a series of Nike commercials featuring Michael Jordan. On Mars’ hat, in place of the Nike swoosh, the poster shows Cannes’ Palme d’Or emblem. Lee looks up pensively at the palm trees that line Cannes’ main throughway, the Croisette.

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