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Allen
Berezovsky
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Getty
/
Spike
Lee
/
Denzel
Washington
A
new
movie
directed
by
Spike
Lee
starring
Denzel
Washington,
sign
us
up
for
that.
Spotted
on
Variety,
Spike
Lee
and
Denzel
Washington
are
coming
together
for
a
new
movie,
well,
sort
of.
The
website
reports
Washington
will
star
in
Lee’s
remake
of
Japanese
filmmaker
Akira
Kurosawa’s
1963
crime
thriller
High
and
Low.
The
film
will
mark
the
first
project
the
duo
has
worked
on
since
2006’s
Inside
Man.
Per
Variety:
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
Kurosawa’s crime
thriller
of
the
same
name.
The
1963
film
starring
Toshiro
Mifune
was
based
on
the
Ed
McBain
novel
“King’s
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.
Variety
reports
High
and
Low
will
also
reunite
Washington
with
Todd
Black
(“Emancipation,”
“The
Equalizer”
films),
who
will
produce
the
film.
Lee
doesn’t
hide
his
admiration
for
Kurosawa’s
films,
telling
Vulture
in
an
interview
his
classic
film
She’s
Gotta
Have
Kurosawa’s
Rashomon
inspired
it.
Production
on
the
film
will
reportedly
begin
in
March.
