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Denzel Washington and Spike Lee are re-teaming for “High and Low,” a new collaboration that marks their first since 2006’s “Inside Man”.

Apple Original Films and A24 are teaming on the project with the latter to release the film theatrically ahead of a global launch on AppleTV+.

The project is an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s iconic 1963 crime thriller of the same name.

That film, based on the Ed McBain novel “King’s Ransom,” deals with a board member (Toshiro Mifune) for a Japanese company who is forced to make a decision between using a vast amount of wealth to gain executive control and helping his employee by lending him the money to free his child from kidnappers.

Alan Fox and Spike Lee co-wrote the new take which starts production in March. Todd Black and Jason Michael Berman are producing for Escape Artists and Mandalay Pictures.

Other Lee and Washington collaborations include “Mo’ Better Blues,” “Malcolm X,” “He Got Game”.

Source: Variety

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