Spike Lee has launched the primary trailer for his A24 crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest. The movie marks his fifth collaboration with Denzel Washington, who stars as a New York Metropolis music government confronted with a ransom plot. Watch the trailer beneath.
Highest 2 Lowest is an English-language adaptation of the 1963 Japanese movie Excessive and Low, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Lee’s model transports the film to New York Metropolis, with Washington as a big-time music tycoon as a substitute of a businessman shopping for out a shoe firm.
The trailer is overlayed with a monologue of Washington asking an unseen character if they will “deal with” the obligations of a life like his, together with, however not restricted to: mayhem, success, cash, failures, and lovers. Visually, the clip is comprised of intermittent pictures of a day within the life as a report label head, like internet hosting conferences and recording classes with artists, earlier than shifting to subway chases, shootouts, and a courthouse protest relating to a rapper named Yung Felon.
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William Alan Fox wrote the movie’s screenplay based mostly on Excessive and Low, which itself is loosely tailored from Ed McBain’s 1959 novel King’s Ransom. Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky, and Ice Spice (making her performing debut) spherical out the solid.
Lee’s most up-to-date movie with Washington was 2006’s Inside Man, and so they beforehand labored collectively on Mo’ Higher Blues, Malcolm X, and He Bought Sport. The director’s newest movie was 2020’s Da 5 Bloods, starring Chadwick Boseman in one in every of his remaining roles.
Highest 2 Lowest opens in choose theaters on August twenty second forward of its Apple TV+ premiere on September fifth.