Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are teaming up for the fifth time, reimagining Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High and Low.
The pair, whose previous projects include Malcolm X and He Got Game, will start filming a reinterpretation in March. Based on the novel King’s Ransom by Ed McBain, the original film stars Toshiro Mifune as a wealthy man in ruin after paying the ransom for a kidnapping.
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Lee has previously spoken about his admiration for Kurosawa, claiming that his 1986 comedy She’s Gotta Have It was influenced by Rashomon. When asked about career longevity last year, Lee said: “Kurosawa was 86! I got to at least get to Kurosawa.”
Oh yeah Oldboy showed Spike Lee is great at Asian remakes.
Holy shiz an Akira remake?!!!
…oh
AKIRA
A Spike Lee joint
Starring
Angela Bassett as Kaneda
Denzel Washington as Tetsuo
I mean, I’d watch that
Actually Taika Waititi is looking into remaking Akira. I like a lot of the stuff he does but I don’t know if anyone can recapture the magic of Akira.
Oh no, oh no, ohh no. There’s no need, especially not with these two.
There’s always need for more Lee and more Denzel.
Yeesh, why remake Kurosawa. That’s like remaking Hitchcock or Bergman.
No, that’s like Hitchcock remaking Bergman or Kurosawa. Or Kurosawa remaking HItchcock or Bergman. Or Bergman…
Sure but I don’t much want that to happen either.
I mean, I’d be interested in seeing the Hitchcock take on a Kurosawa movie… It’d be interesting if nothing else
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are teaming up for the fifth time, reimagining Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High and Low.
The pair, whose previous projects include Malcolm X and He Got Game, will start filming a reinterpretation in March.
Lee has previously spoken about his admiration for Kurosawa, claiming that his 1986 comedy She’s Gotta Have It was influenced by Rashomon.
Kurosawa’s work has been remade before multiple times, most recently with 2022’s Living, a new take on Ikiru, starring Bill Nighy, who received an Oscar nomination.
The remake will be released theatrically by A24 before heading to Apple TV+, following a similar route to The Tragedy of Macbeth, which scored Washington a best actor Oscar nomination.
His script Queens of the Stoned Age, about a model who becomes a weed dealer, is set up at Sony with Dakota Johnson pegged to star.
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Screw, tin man.
