Spike Lee and Denzel Washington review a masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa

In the absence of having an official first trailer, Apple y A24 have shared a brief advance of what awaits us with Highest 2 Lowest. The creative reunion between director Spike Lee and Denzel Washington that part, neither more nor less, than to be a kind of modern remake of Hell of Hate by Akira Kurosawa (1963). The ambitious tape will reach theaters in summer and before, the imminent attendees Cannes Cine Festival You can see it in a premiere that will not enter the official section by competition.

Read, return to the feature film format A five years later of Gives 5 Bloods: Weapons brothershis war film for Netflix. And what better way than doing it next to what was one of the fetish stars in the cusp stage of his career? The filmmaker has Washington again, 19 years after his last collaboration, having worked together in Mo’ better blues (The more, the better!) (1990), Malcolm X (1992), A bad play (1998) y Hidden Plan (2006). This new work, inspired by the novel King’s kidnapping From Evan Hunter from which Kurosawa’s film also left, he has been adapted to the field of the libretto by Lee himself and the debutante Alan Fox. Being clearly, a current reinterpretation that is produced under the executive Michael Berman of Mandalay Pictures and Todd Black by Exhaust Artists. At first, Highest 2 Lowest It will reach the American cinemas on August 22while on September 4, its arrival to the Apple TV +catalog is scheduled. We still do not know if in Spain we will have passes through our armchairs or if, as in the North American domestic market, this story will reach the platform content range directly.

Teaser de ‘Highest 2 Lowest’

The brief advance of Highest 2 Lowest It is loaded with style, presenting how not under the umbrella of the distinctive seal of A24 and the streaming brand of the Technological Company founded by Steve Jobs. Thus, under a tour of one of the iconic New York bridges impregnated with a bluish ethalonage, the promotional material presents the great names that the tape will present, as well as the professional route of a spike lee that took The Honorary Oscar in 2016 and that in 2019, it would end up rising with the golden statuette for the adaptation of the script of Infiltrate at Kkklan (2018).

The original story of Hell in Hate put us in the skin of Eagle (Toshirô Mifune), an director of an important shoe company that one day, receives the news that Your child has been kidnapped. The rescue required by the kidnapper is, of course, a lot of money. But Gondo needs that sum to close a negotiation that would give it control of the company. That starting point has been updated, moving the plot to New York and giving the Washington character A managerial position In a record label.

Apart from the omnipotent presence of the actor of American Gangster (2007), the main casting of Highest 2 Lowest It is completed with Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale), Lifenesh Hadera (Show Me a Hero), Dean Winters (John Wick), Michael Potts (The Wire), John Douglas Thompson (Bourne’s legacy) and the singers Ice Spice y Asap Rockywho on the other hand already made his film debut in Dope (2015) and the recently well valued by critics, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

Denzel Washington continues to surprise

Nominated in 10 occasions And with two golden statuettes in his possession, at 70 he might seem that Denzel Washington has already done everything in his career. However, his performance was the little rescued in Gladiator II (2023) and two years ago, he showed us that he could still be an action hero in The Equalizer 3 (2023). Of course, he recently mentioned that he was close to professional retirement.

Something that happens in the same way with Spike Lee, although the sum of both supposes a collaboration exciting and stimulating for any cinephile. Lee has been spacing the premiere of his feature films for many years and is not, the first time he faces a powerful remake of oriental origin. In 2013, he premiered Old Boythe review of the great homonymous masterpiece of Park Chan-Wook.

A24 has a whole series of powerful premieres before the end of the year. From Materialist by Celine Song, until Marty Supreme From Joshua Safdie. On the most commercial side, Apple will give us this summer the premiere of blockbuster F1 con Brad Pitt.