The collaboration between Denzel Washington and Spike Lee for the movie “High and Low” is making headlines. The film, a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller, will be released theatrically by A24 before a global launch on AppleTV+.
The original 1963 film was based on the novel “King’s Ransom,” and this English-language adaptation has been developed and produced by A24, Escape Artists, and Mandalay Pictures, with a script written by Alan Fox and Spike Lee.
The movie will be directed by Spike Lee, who will also serve as an executive producer through his 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks. Todd Black and Jason Michael Berman will produce the film, marking another collaboration between Lee and Washington.
This is not Washington’s first collaboration with Apple Original Films; his previous project, “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” earned him his 10th Oscar nomination. Denzel Washington is represented by WME, while Spike Lee is represented by Gersh and Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, and Fox is represented by Grandview.
