Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
2h 13m
Running Time
May 19, 2025Release Date
Plot.
When a titan music mogul, 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.
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Cast & Crew.

Denzel Washington

Jeffrey Wright

Ilfenesh Hadera

A$AP Rocky
Yung Felon

Dean Winters

Michael Potts
Patrick Bethea

Ice Spice

LaChanze
Sgt

Jeremy Sample
Randy / Stunts

Evyn George
Gym Goer

John Douglas Thompson

Matthew Lindner
Executive Producer

Alan Fox
Writer

Spike Lee
Director / Executive Producer / Screenplay

Jordan Moldo
Co-Producer

Peter Guber
Executive Producer

Todd Black
Producer

Chris Brigham
Executive Producer

Katia Washington
Executive Producer

Jason Michael Berman
Producer

Ryūzō Kikushima
Original Film Writer

Eijirō Hisaita
Original Film Writer

Akira Kurosawa
Original Film Writer

Hideo Oguni
Original Film Writer

Matthew Libatique
Director of Photography

Evan Hunter
Novel

Joseph P. Reidy
First Assistant Director

Allyson C. Johnson
Editor

Aimee Dombo Desmond
Assistant Art Director

Alan Fox
Screenplay

Barry Alexander Brown
Editor

Kim Taylor-Coleman
Casting

Mark Friedberg
Production Design

Laura Ballinger
Supervising Art Director

Lisa Scoppa
Set Decoration

Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Costume Design

Ngozi Olandu
Makeup Department Head

Philip Stockton
Supervising Sound Editor

Hugh Sicotte
Concept Artist

Alex Bickel
Colorist

Michael Simmons
Art Direction

George B. Colucci Jr.
Stunts

Tim Gallin
Stunts

Dina L. Margolin
Stunts

Joanne Lamstein
Stunts

Mike Burke
Stunt Driver

Victoria Lee Parella
Stunt Driver

Teéa Loreál
Stunt Driver

Salar Ghajar
Stunts

Samantha MacIvor
Stunts

Manny Ayala
Stunt Driver

Roy T. Anderson
Stunt Driver

Justin Clarke
Stunt Driver

Jamaal Burcher
Stunts

Niahlah Hope
Stunts

Jimmy P. Wong
Stunt Driver

Sol Saihati
Gaffer

Howard Drossin
Original Music Composer

LaWanda M. Pierre
Hair Department Head

James Debbs
Post Production Supervisor

Randy Manion
Unit Production Manager

Rachel Jaros
Second Assistant Director

Cole Fletcher
Second Second Assistant Director

Travis Rehwaldt
Second Unit First Assistant Director

Lisa Merik
Assistant Art Director

Reid Thompson
Assistant Art Director

Jake Spongberg
Set Dresser

Sacha Piscuskas
Set Decoration Buyer

Allison Jackson
Sound Mixer

Frank Kern
Foley Editor

Joseph Winterbotham
Sound Effects Editor

Kevin Delatorre-Yanez
Special Effects Technician

John Nesbit
Special Effects Technician

Ryan Nordin
Special Effects Technician

David C. Sales
Visual Effects Producer

Julian J. Delacruz
Steadicam Operator / 'A' Camera Operator

Benjamin Meads
Lighting Technician

Ryan Mulholland
Lighting Technician

Ricardo Sarmiento
Camera Operator

Jason Robbins
'B' Camera Operator

Emily Fleischer
Casting Associate

Elijah Wright
Media.

Details.
Release DateMay 19, 2025
StatusPost Production
Running Time2h 13m
Filming LocationsNew York City, United States
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
remake
new york
based on novel or book
ransom
moral dilemma
Wiki.
Highest 2 Lowest is an upcoming American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by William Alan Fox. It is an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself loosely based on the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter). The film stars Denzel Washington, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Ice Spice (In her film debut), and ASAP Rocky.
The film is scheduled to premiere out of competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in May 2025, and will be released theatrically by A24 before being made available on Apple TV+.