A24 dropped the official trailer for “Highest 2 Lowest,” starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and rapper A$AP Rocky (Rihanna’s fiancé).
Denzel plays David King, a music mogul whose son, Trey (Aubrey Joseph), is kidnapped by a mysterious shadowy figure.
When the kidnapper demands $17.5 million in an all-black Jordan backpack, a frustrated King says “I ain’t got it!”
One of King’s lines in the movie is “there’s more to life than just making money. There’s integrity, there’s what you stand for.”
King decides to take the law into his own hands to save his son. The kidnapper warns King, “you’re not God no more… I am.”
Highest 2 Lowest is the fifth movie collaboration between Denzel and director Spike Lee. They previously worked together on Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game and Inside Man.
The film is a remake of the 1963 Japanese crime thriller, High and Low, which earned a Golden Globe nomination.
Highest 2 Lowest also stars rapper A$AP Rocky, Dean Winters (John Wick), Wendell Pierce (HBO’s The Wire), John Douglas Thompson, Aubrey Joseph, former NBA star Rick Fox, and rapper Ice Spice.
The movie opens in theaters on August 15 and streams Sept. 5 on Apple TV+.
Watch the trailer below.
The King is here. Spike Lee reunites with Denzel Washington for the first time in 20 years for HIGHEST 2 LOWEST — only in theaters August 15, streaming September 5 on Apple TV+ pic.twitter.com/EcqAMMZ9yv
— A24 (@A24) August 4, 2025
