Together with Denzel Washington, directing Spike Lee has reissued one of the defining thriller master works: Here is the first teaser trailer for “Highest 2 Lowest”.
Akira Kurosawa Has with his thriller “Between heaven and hell“Alias“ High and Low ”from 1963 shaped the genre. The captivating masterpiece tells of a rich shoe entrepreneur who is blackmailed with the kidnapping of his son. But then it turns out that the kidnapper accidentally caught the son of the chauffeur. This presents the entrepreneur a moral dilemma: should he still pay to save life, even if the ransom amount would ruin it?
The exciting examination of this question, combined with a febrile search by the police for the perpetrator and a discussion about the class differences, has shaped numerous filmmakers. Among other things Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann already referred to Kurosawa’s masterpiece in their work, also the Oscar success “Parasite“Is in this tradition.
A fan of the original has been a long time Spike Lee. For almost 15 years he has been having the plan to make a free remake and to move the story to a modern US metropolis. Now he has it with “Highest 2 Lowest“Really realized.
This is “Highest 2 Lowest” with Denzel Washington
Spike Lees Modern Adaption plays in today’s New York City. Denzel Washington According to the official announcement, embodied a “titanium in the music industry”, which everyone only knows as a man with the “best ears of the industry”. When he becomes the goal of a blackmail plan, he gets into a moral dilemma on life and death.
As the trailer makes it clear again, a Hollywood dream duo is reunited. It is the fifth collaboration between Washington and Lee – The first after a very, very long time. In the 1990s they made three films with “Mo‛ Better Blues “,” Malcolm X “and” He Got Game “, only followed” Inside Man “from 2006.
For “Highest 2 Lowest” there were also still Jeffrey Wright,, Ilfenesh Hadera as well as rapper A $ ap rocky in front of the camera. The project was created for indie success forge A24 (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) in collaboration with Apple. At the Streaming Service AppleTV+, “Highest 2 Lowest” should run later, at least in the USA there will be a theatrical release. Nothing is known about the type of evaluation in Germany.
“Highest 2 Lowest” is celebrating its world premiere this month at the film festival in Cannes. We are on site and will then be able to tell you how close Lee and Washington came to the oversized model.
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