Between “mo” better blues, ” “Malcolm X,” “He got games” and “inside man,” Denzel Washington and Spike Lee have had more than enough opportunities to cooperate with each other, and yet it seems that none of them could let more time go without doing At least one project to together.
The actor and author reunited for the first time in almost 20 years for the upcoming crime film “Highest 2 lowest. “The project is inspired by Akira Kurosawas” High and Low “, who played Toshiro Mifune as a rich Japanese businessman who gets stuck in a game of cat-and-mouse with a sadistic kidnapper. The film shot last year in New York City and is expected to be released sometime in 2025. Speak in A new interview with The New York TimesWashington expressed his joy in coming to work with Lee again, even though he didn’t feel much time had passed at all.
“It didn’t feel like 20 years,” he said. “It felt like we were picking up where we quit.”
It also seems that their shared work may not be done with “no more than 2 lowest”, as Washington was quick to say that he would be ready for what Lee threw at him next.
“Spike is consistently spike, and I love it about him,” Washington said. “And I love working with him and I would work with him again. I like just like his brain works. “
IN A separate interview in Variety From December 2024, Lee described “highest 2 lowest” as “a reinterpretation of the great Kurosawa” rather than a complete remake. He also shared his enthusiasm to get to work with Washington again and felt the same way that no time had passed.
“We are brothers. It’s been 18 years since we shot our last film together. It’s a gap. But I was surprised that it didn’t feel that way, Lee said. “I am very blessed to have worked with him on five films. We don’t have to sit down and watch each other. We just do our thing. “
“Highest 2 Lowest” also reunites Lee and Washington with their “Inside Man” Kinematographer, Matthew Libatique, whose last movie with Lee was 2015’s “Chi -Raq.” Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, who is also presented in the role A $ AP Rockyand ice cream. No release date has been set for the film yet.
