Between “Mo’ Higher Blues,” “Malcolm X,” “He Bought Recreation,” and “Inside Man,” Denzel Washington and Spike Lee have had greater than sufficient alternatives to collaborate with each other, and but it appears neither may let extra time go by with out doing at the very least yet another venture collectively.
The actor and auteur reunited for the primary time in virtually 20 years for the upcoming crime movie “Highest 2 Lowest.” The venture is impressed by Akira Kurosawa’s “Excessive and Low,” which starred Toshiro Mifune as a rich Japanese businessman who will get caught in a sport of cat-and-mouse with a sadistic kidnapper. The movie shot final 12 months in New York Metropolis and is anticipated to be launched someday in 2025. Talking in a current interview with The New York Instances, Washington expressed his pleasure in attending to work with Lee once more, although he didn’t really feel a lot time had handed in any respect.
“It didn’t really feel like 20 years,” he stated. “It felt like we picked up the place we left off.”
It additionally looks as if their shared work is probably not completed with “Highest 2 Lowest,” as Washington was fast to say he’d be prepared for no matter Lee threw at him subsequent.
“Spike is persistently Spike, and I really like that about him,” Washington stated. “And I really like working with him, and I’d work with him once more. I identical to the way in which his mind works.”
In a separate interview in Selection from December 2024, Lee described “Highest 2 Lowest” as “a reinterpretation of the good Kurosawa” quite than a full-on remake. He additionally shared his enthusiasm for attending to work with Washington once more and felt equally that no time had handed.
“We’re brothers. It’s 18 years since we shot our final movie collectively. That’s a spot. However I used to be stunned it didn’t really feel that approach,” Lee stated. “I’m very blessed to have labored with him on 5 movies. We don’t have to sit down down and have a look at one another. We simply do our factor.”
“Highest 2 Lowest” additionally reunites Lee and Washington with their “Inside Man” cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, whose final movie with Lee was 2015’s “Chi-Raq.” Additionally featured within the solid are Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, A$AP Rocky, and Ice Spice. No launch date has been set for the movie but.