India, Aug. 4 -- The trailer for Highest 2 Lowest has officially landed-and if there were any doubts about the energy of this remake, consider them gone. Directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, this reimagining of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 crime drama High and Low moves the action from post-war Japan to the high-stakes world of New York's music industry.

Washington plays David, a powerful music exec whose life is thrown into chaos when his young son, Trey, is kidnapped. What begins as a standard day at work spirals into a desperate attempt to negotiate with a faceless voice on the other end of the line. Jeffrey Wright plays Paul, one of David's trusted confidantes, who opens the trailer with a deadpan line: "I need theme music....