Throughout his career director Spike Lee has crossed through a variety of genres with each film further cementing his legacy as one of the most brilliant filmmakers of all time. Some of the best he has done were those teamed up with acting icon Denzel Washington including Malcolm X, Mo’ Better Blues, He Got Game, and Inside Man. Now the two powerhouses are reteaming for their latest film Highest 2 Lowest, 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.

 

Highest 2 Lowest follows a titan music mogul, widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, who is targeted with a ransom plot getting him jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

 

While you will have to wait until August 22nd to see the film in select theaters before it hits Appl TV+ on September 5th, you can check out the first teaser trailer and poster here now from A24.