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Spike Lee Says ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Is Potentially His Last Collaboration With Denzel Washington: “This Is It—Five”
'Highest 2 Lowest' debuted yesterday in Cannes.
Lee is back here in Cannes with his latest feature, Highest 2 Lowest, a modern reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic High and Low, which was itself based on the novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain. While the original follows a shoe company exec who becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom, the new film, set in contemporary New York City, sees a music mogul played by Denzel Washington contend with a similar plot. Exec producers included Lee for 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, and Mandalay’s Peter Guber, as well as Juniper Productions’ Matthew Lindner, Chris Brigham, and Katia Washington.
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