Exclusive: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera on working in Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest
Hitting theaters on August 15 from A24 before airing on Apple TV+ on Sept. 5 is Spike Lee's latest film titled Highest 2 Lowest, a modern remake of Kurosawa's 1963 classic High and Low (aka Heaven and Hell).
The film stars Denzel Washington, A$AP Rocky, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Elijah Wright, Aubrey Joseph, Wendell Pierce, Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson, LaChanze, Aiyana-Lee, Jensen McRae, Sunni Valentine, Frederick Weller, Ice Spice, Princess Nokia, Rick Fox, Nicholas Turturro, Rosie Perez, and Allison Worrell.
A contemporary remake of Kurosawa's movie High and Low (1963). 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.
The new screenplay is written by Alan Fox; based on the novel novel "King's Ransom" by Evan Hunter and the original 1963 film written by Hideo Oguni & Ryûzô Kikushima & Eijirô Hisaita & Akira Kurosawa. Produced by Jason Michael Berman and Todd Black.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera on working on Spike Lee' new film Highest 2 Lowest.
