Highest 2 Lowest trailer: Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky face off in newest Spike Lee joint

Apple and A24 have launched the primary official trailer for Highest 2 Lowest, a contemporary crime thriller directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky. The movie marks the primary collaboration between Lee and Washington since Inside Man practically twenty years in the past.

Set in present-day New York City, Highest 2 Lowest reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 movie High and Low, itself based mostly on Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom. Washington performs a strong music govt whose world is thrown into chaos when a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme targets the unsuitable sufferer. The narrative unfolds as he navigates a city-wide manhunt, with A$AP Rocky enjoying a central function within the unfolding disaster.

The movie debuted out of competitors on the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and is scheduled for a U.S. theatrical launch on August 15, adopted by a streaming launch on Apple TV on September 5. This marks Spike Lee’s sixth movie to be showcased at Cannes, and it comes 36 years after his debut there with Do the Right Thing.

Joining Washington and A$AP Rocky within the solid are Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson, and Ice Spice. The screenplay was written by Alan Fox.

Highest 2 Lowest was developed by Apple and A24, with manufacturing dealt with by Escape Artists and Mandalay Pictures. Todd Black produced the movie alongside Jason Michael Berman. Executive producers embody Spike Lee for 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Peter Guber for Mandalay, and Katia Washington, amongst others.