The first teaser trailer for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest has been released.

Highest 2 Lowest is a forthcoming A24 movie that serves as a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low. Directed by Lee, the movie stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and more.

Check out the Highest 2 Lowest teaser trailer below

What happens in the Highest 2 Lowest teaser trailer?

The Highest 2 Lowest trailer sees Washington play a music mogul who gets wrapped up in a ransom plot. The cast of the movie also includes Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky, Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson, and Ice Spice.

“When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the ‘best ears in the business’, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma,” the official synopsis reads. “Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern-day New York City.”

The script comes from William Alan Fox. Both Highest 2 Lowest and Kurosawa’s High and Low are loosely based on a 1959 novel titled King’s Random by Ed McBain.

Lee and Washington previously collaborated on 1990’s Mo’ Better Blues, 1992’s Malcolm X (which earned Washington an Academy Award nomination), 1998’s He Got Game, and 2006’s Inside Man. Lee also recently worked with Washington’s son, John David Washington, on 2018’s BlacKkKlansman movie.

Highest 2 Lowest will have its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival later this month. It will be released in United States theaters on August 22, 2025, from A25 before it then will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on September 5, 2025.