Spike Lee and Denzel Washington reuniting for Akira Kurosawa remake

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• cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yeah Oldboy showed Spike Lee is great at Asian remakes.

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• JoMomma@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy shiz an Akira remake?!!!

  …oh

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  • xyzzy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AKIRA

    A Spike Lee joint

    Starring

    Angela Bassett as Kaneda

    Denzel Washington as Tetsuo

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    • JoMomma@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, I’d watch that

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually Taika Waititi is looking into remaking Akira. I like a lot of the stuff he does but I don’t know if anyone can recapture the magic of Akira.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(planned_film)

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• livus@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeesh, why make Kurosawa. That's like remaking Hitchcock.

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  • raoulraoul@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, that’s like Hitchcock remaking Bergman or Kurosawa. Or Kurosawa remaking HItchcock or Bergman. Or Bergman…

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure but I don't much want that to happen either.

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• Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh no, oh no, ohh no. There’s no need, especially not with these two.

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  • raoulraoul@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s always need for more Lee and more Denzel.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are teaming up for the fifth time, reimagining Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High and Low.

  The pair, whose previous projects include Malcolm X and He Got Game, will start filming a reinterpretation in March.

  Lee has previously spoken about his admiration for Kurosawa, claiming that his 1986 comedy She’s Gotta Have It was influenced by Rashomon.

  Kurosawa’s work has been remade before multiple times, most recently with 2022’s Living, a new take on Ikiru, starring Bill Nighy, who received an Oscar nomination.

  The remake will be released theatrically by A24 before heading to Apple TV+, following a similar route to The Tragedy of Macbeth, which scored Washington a best actor Oscar nomination.

  His script Queens of the Stoned Age, about a model who becomes a weed dealer, is set up at Sony with Dakota Johnson pegged to star.

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  • raoulraoul@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Screw, tin man.

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