‘Higest 2 Lowest’ Trailer: Denzel Washington Plays A Musical Mogul Thrust Into A Ransom Plot Releasing In Theaters On August 15

Coming up this month, audiences will be able to catch the fifth and potentially final feature collaboration between director Spike Lee and Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington with “Highest 2 Lowest” heading to theaters on August 15.

A new trailer for the highly-anticipated thriller has arrived this morning, showcasing the pic, which is Lee’s bombastic modern version of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa-directed film “Highest To Lowest” (an adaptation of Evan Hunter‘s novel “King’s Ransom“) that starred the Japanese filmmaker’s longtime muse Toshiro Mifune.

Washington leads the cast of “Highest 2 Lowest” that also features fellow Oscar-winner Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”) alongside Ilfenesh Hadera and A$AP Rocky.

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An official synopsis for the remake courtesy of Apple:

When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern-day New York City.

This won’t be Lee’s first recent movie to head to streaming, as his Vietnam-set treasure hunt dramedy “Da 5 Bloods” was at Netflix, so the ransom remake being at Apple Original Films wasn’t shocking, but has since secured a traditional theatrical distribution partnership with the folks over at A24.

Lee has previously signaled back in May during the Cannes Film Festival that “Highest 2 Lowest” could end up being the pair’s final movie project together, which should make this one a super-special experience for folks who have marveled over their previous efforts together, such as “Malcolm X,” “Inside Man,” “He Got Game,” and “Mo’ Better Bules.”

Speaking of Cannes, The Playlist reviewed the film during the French festival, and you can read our thoughts right here.

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Feel free to check out the latest trailer for the pic below; it’ll also be making a streaming debut on September 5 for those with Apple TV+ subscriptions.

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