The 61-year-old director was stunned when 'Get Out' filmmaker Jordan Peele - who had optioned the story and developed a script for the movie - asked him to take the reins on the saga, which is based on the true story of black policeman Ron Stallworth, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s, but knew his own career history would serve him well on the project.
Spike told the Sunday Times Culture magazine: "When Jordan called me up and told me the premise -- a black man infiltrates the KKK -- I said, 'This can't be true.' And he said, 'It's true', and I was in.
