He’d Spike Ga. gigs over abortion law

Word from Da Republic of Brooklyn to the state of Georgia: If your “heartbeat” abortion ban takes effect, forget about seeing any Spike Lee joints in your state.

It’s time for Georgia-based TV and movie productions to do the right thing and “shut it down,” Brooklyn-based moviemaker Lee said during the arrivals at the AFI Lifetime Achievement tribute to Denzel Washington.

“You’ve got to be on the right side of history, and the state of Georgia and those other states, they’re wrong,” Lee (photo) said at the Hollywood event Thursday night.

Lee acknowledges that boycotting Georgia and other states that restrict abortion — mostly in the South — will cause economic hardship for working people.

But he noted that black bus drivers were hurt by the yearlong bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. in 1955 and 1956, when African-Americans refused to ride city buses after Rosa Parks refused to move to a rear seat.

“I know it’s going to affect people’s livelihood. But that’s how things change,” Lee said.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law last month that would ban abortion as soon as doctors detect a heartbeat in a fetus. That could effectively outlaw abortions before six weeks. The law is to take effect next year.

Georgia’s film industry is booming. “Black Panther” brought jobs to 3,100 people in Georgia who took home $26.5 million in wages, the Motion Picture Association of America says. “The Hunger Games” movies were also filmed in the state.

Probably the best-known Georgia TV production is AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Its producers say they’ll pull up stakes if the law takes effect.

A Netflix executive has said the abortion ban will cause the company to reconsider its “entire investment” in Georgia. Netflix’s “Stranger Things” shoots in Atlanta. A half-dozen other media companies have threatened to follow suit.