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Nichols Takes On Kurosawa's High And Low

29 October 2008 7:39 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

Mike Nichols, who has shown his filmmaking prowess with movies like Charlie Wilson's War and Closer, is heading into remake territory, with an announced project set to remake High and Low from classic filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The 1963 picture was a detective story adapted from Ed McBain's King's Ransom which involved a kidnapping plot that led to a businessman's ruin. The new version of the movie will be directed by Nichols, who will use a David Mamet script that was originally commissioned by Martin Scorsese in 1999. The news comes from Variety, who announced casting hasn't started on the movie yet. While we're usually quick to leap on bad remake ideas, this one probably isn't that bad. As remarkable a filmmaker as he is, Kurosawa's work isn't known by the average filmgoer, so the movie will look pretty original to a lot of people. Remaking Kurosawa's work has proven

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Nichols to remake Kurosawa's 'High And Low'

29 October 2008 5:16 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Veteran filmmaker Mike Nichols will remake Akira Kurosawa's classic High And Low, reports Variety. The original 1963 thriller revolves around an executive who is presented with the dilemma of either using money he has raised to pay the ransom for his kidnapped son or complete a crucial business deal. David Mamet's High And Low script was originally intended as a project for Martin Scorsese to direct, but the Departed helmer has stepped aside for Nichols. (more)

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Mike Nichols to remake Kurosawa's High and Low

29 October 2008 9:51 AM, PDT | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

Helmer Mike Nichols has signed to direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa's High And Low for Miramax.

The film was originally going to be directed by Martin Scorsese, who hired David Mamet to write the script back in 1999. The flick will revolve around a businessman who is ruined when he honorably pays ransom to kidnappers who mistakenly nabbed his driver's son.

Scorsese will probably act as executive producer on the project.

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Mike Nichols remaking Kurosawa’s High And Low

28 October 2008 10:24 PM, PDT | From TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news

Mike Nichols has signed on to direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High And Low for Miramax. David Mamet has written the script – Martin Scorsese originally hired him for the job back in 1999, reports Variety. But the rights have taken a long time to sort out, with producer Scott Rudin finally locking then down. Detective thriller Kurosawa’s 1963 detective thriller starred Toshiro Mifune and was based on Ed...

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High and Low

29 July 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Akira Kurosawa's masterful crime thriller High And Low is a tale of two movies: The first is a 53-minute potboiler set almost entirely in a single room, and the second a high-stakes police procedural that zigzags breathlessly from one lead to the next as it tightens the net on a suspected kidnapper. One of the remarkable things about the movie is how those halves interact, as the suffocating tension of confinement gives way to the open air. There's a different kind of suspense in each situation, with the first half consumed in extended negotiation and plotting over the kidnapping, and the second half a race against the clock to hunt down the sociopath responsible. Through it all, Kurosawa analyzes the smallest possible details in laying out and cracking the case; in that sense, High And Low is like a proto-Zodiac in its obsessive tracking of every lead, no matter how.

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5 articles from 2008

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