Legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Excessive and Low will get a contemporary New York Metropolis music business twist courtesy of director Spike Lee and star Denzel Washington, in keeping with the brand new teaser trailer for Highest 2 Lowest 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 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. Ultimately it went on to grow 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 carrying what look like gold-plated Beats headphones. Will there be a product tie-in? Possibly not involving precise gold?
fifth time ‘brothers’ Lee and Washington pair up
Apparently, 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 large’s half:
“When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), broadly generally known 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 good 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:
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