Legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Excessive and Low will get a contemporary New York Metropolis music trade twist courtesy of director Spike Lee and star Denzel Washington, based on the brand new teaser trailer for the Highest 2 Lowest film Apple TV+ posted Monday.
The brand new film hits theaters August 22 earlier than streaming on Apple TV+ September 5.
Trendy trailer reveals Spike Lee and Denzel Washington going Highest 2 Lowest film in Kurosawa remake
Japanese director Kurosawa’s police procedural crime drama Excessive and Low (“Heaven and Hell” in Japanese) — involving the kidnapping of a rich shoe magnate — got here out in 1963 to modest acclaim and excessive field workplace gross sales in Japan. Finally it went on to turn out to be the second-highest rating Kurosawa movie — after the traditional Seven Samurai — on at the least a few movie web sites, together with Rotten Tomatoes.
Now, Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest resets the story in modern-day New York Metropolis. This time a music mogul (Washington) faces a ransom plot. In two scenes within the trailer establishing his music biz cred, he’s seen sporting what seem like gold-plated Beats headphones. Will there be a product tie-in? Perhaps not involving precise gold?
Highest 2 Lowest film: fifth time ‘brothers’ Lee and Washington pair up
Curiously, Apple’s description on the YouTube web page refers to Washington and Lee as “brothers,” in what may draw some jibes over cultural language appropriation on the iPhone big’s half:
“When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), extensively referred to as having the ‘greatest ears within the enterprise,’ is focused with a ransom plot, he’s jammed up in a life-or-death ethical dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the fifth time of their lengthy working relationship for a reinterpretation of the nice filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller Excessive and Low, now performed out on the imply streets of recent day New York Metropolis.”
Watch the trailer for Highest 2 Lowest film:
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