"That's the question I have you... can you handle it?" A24 has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Spike Lee's latest feature film titled
Highest 2 Lowest, a modern remake of Kurosawa's 1963 classic
High and Low (aka
Heaven and Hell). Spike was shooting this movie in NYC last year, and now it's ready for release this summer.
Highest 2 Lowest will premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival playing out-of-competition in a few weeks (
full line-up here), then it'll open in theaters at
the end of August. After nearly twenty years, two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington reunites with the legendary Spike Lee for a new joint. This pulse-pounding NYC thriller follows a mastermind in music biz. When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. A reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's kidnapping thriller
High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York. Starring
Denzel Washington,
Jeffrey Wright,
Ilfenesh Hadera,
A$AP Rocky,
Ice Spice,
Dean Winters, and
John Douglas Thompson. Not a ton of footage to see in here, but so far so good - I'm ready for this //
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