By DEWEY TERRILL
JC Post

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — Oscar-winning screenwriter and Junction City native Kevin Willmott is involved in the work on a new movie. He is collaborating with co-writer Spike Lee on a film, Da 5 Bloods, a drama about black Vietnam War veterans.

Willmott told JC Post, “I have a new film that I just wrote with Spike that’s shooting in Thailand right now.”

“It’s about black soldiers in Vietnam,” he added.

Willmott has just returned from Thailand. He said the film is going to be on Netflix.

A professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas, Willmott won an Oscar for best-adapted screenplay for co-writing BlacKkKlansman.

Willmott is a graduate of Salina’s former Marymount College.