I think Spike Lee can make some amazing movies, some of them being classics, but he also made some terrible ones.
his last remake, OldBoy, was dog cheeks.
Denzel Washington and Spike Lee are reuniting for their fifth film together the first since 2006s Inside Man. Apple Original Films and A24 are partnering on High and Low, which will be released theatrically by A24 before a global launch on AppleTV+.
The thriller, which starts production in March, is the English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawas crime thriller of the same name. The 1963 film starring Toshiro Mifune was based on the Ed McBain novel Kings Ransom, which chronicles the ruin of a businessman following a ransom payment to kidnappers.
Developed and produced by A24, Escape Artists and Mandalay Pictures, High and Low features a script written by Alan Fox and Spike Lee.
As Apple is a co-financier on High and Low, this project will not be included in a recent multi-year deal that A24 brokered with competing streaming service Max last year, sources familiar with the movie said. The Max deal covers the pay one window for A24 releases, which is a term for the typical period when a film first hits cable or streaming after a theatrical release and paid video-on-demand.
The feature will be produced by Todd Black (Emancipation, The Equalizer films) for Escape Artists and Jason Michael Berman (Air, Nine Days) for Mandalay Pictures. In addition to directing, Lee will serve as executive producer through his 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks. Mandalays Peter Guber will serve as executive producer, along with Juniper Productions Matthew Lindner, Chris Brigham, and Katia Washington. Mandalays Jordan Moldo is co-producing.
Lee and Washington previously collaborated on Mo Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game and Inside Man. It also marks the latest project for Washington with Todd Black following collaborations on Fences, Ma Raineys Black Bottom and The Equalizer franchise.
This is Washingtons second collaboration with Apple Original Films following The Tragedy of Macbeth, also from A24, which landed Washington his 10th Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
Washington is represented by WME; Lee is represented by Gersh and Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks; Fox is represented by Grandview.