Mike Nichols and David Mamet to Collaborate on High and Low

Tony Award winners Mike Nichols and David Mamet will direct and write, respectively, Miramax Films’ remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 movie High and Low, according to Variety.

The original film was based on Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom, about a businessman who is ruined after he pays the ransom to the people who mistakenly kidnapped his driver’s son.

Nichols is currently represented on Broadway by Monty Python’s Spamalot and directed last season’s revival of The Country Girl. Mamet is represented on Broadway by revivals of Speed-the-Plow and American Buffalo, which begins previews this week.