Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are teaming up once more in Highest 2 Lowest, an A24 crime thriller set on the earth of New York’s music trade. The movie marks the duo’s fifth collaboration and is already constructing buzz forward of its world premiere on the Cannes Movie Pageant later this month.
Primarily based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 traditional Excessive and Low, Lee’s adaptation switches company Japan for the rugged streets of NYC.
The trailer teases a story that weaves collectively success, betrayal, and the darkish facet of fame.
Highest 2 Lowest options an all-star forged together with Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky, with Ice Spice making her appearing debut. The screenplay, penned by William Alan Fox, is loosely rooted in Kurosawa’s movie and the 1959 novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain.
This mission will mark Spike Lee’s first movie since 2020’s Da 5 Bloods and his long-awaited return to working with Washington after 2006’s Inside Man. The pair additionally collaborated on Mo’ Higher Blues, Malcolm X, and He Bought Recreation.
Highest 2 Lowest hits choose theaters on August twenty second and debuts on Apple TV+ on September fifth.
TRAILER: Denzel Washington & Spike Lee Reunite in “Highest 2 Lowest”
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