Refn sees his latest foray the same way. All names, trademarks and images are copyright their respective owners. Affiliate links used when available. He asked himself what he couldn’t do with a typical, theatrically-released film, and his answer was, “Well, I can’t make a 13-hour movie.” In the production notes, he took it a step further, asking, “What would Fritz Lang do if he was alive today?”, “Ironically, it’s what the silent filmmakers started out with because they had no limitations at the dawn of film,” he said. Refn let slip his plans for that project last year, describing it as a spy movie to be shot in Tokyo: Yeah, it’s basically a character that appears in my other movies that will now appear again. At Cannes, the end credits in “North of Hollywood” were cut out, as were the titles that open the next episode, “West of Hell.” It looked like a movie, even if it lacked a definitive ending, and that’s exactly how director and co-writer Nicolas Winding Refn wanted his latest project, a hitman saga, to be seen. A new Nicolas Winding Refn movie is in the works. Plot details are being kept under very tight wraps. The … “Maniac Cop” got its start as a 1988 slasher movie directed by William Lustig and starring Robert Z’Dar, Tom Atkins, and Bruce Campbell. Streaming is not only movies or TV — it’s also music, it’s installations, it’s literature, it’s poetry — everything is being streamed. Nicolas Winding Refn is sticking with television following the release of his Amazon original miniseries “Too Old to Die Young” earlier this year. This Article is related to: Television and tagged Amazon, Nicolas Winding Refn, Too Old To Die Young, TV Interviews. Deadline broke the news. You’re gonna take a book and you’re going to browse through it, [pick] somewhere, and you’re going to read a piece of it. Come June 14, viewers can decide if they’re in control of the series, or if they’ll give themselves over to Refn. In this case all you need is a guy and a car. 9 Shows to Watch for During the Winter TV Awards Season, 'Lovecraft Country' Finale Review: Season 1 Is Beautiful, Bonkers TV -- and Little Else, 2020 Fall Network TV Schedules: What's Returning, What's New, and What's Canceled on NBC. The duo previously teamed with Refn for the Barbarella TV series, which is in development at Amazon. Why do we still retain the same narrative and constructions from a time that doesn’t even exist?”. ‘If you go into a bookstore and find a book, you’re not going to take a book and read the first page. The idea of constraint or length hadn’t been programmed. Why did he want critics, not to mention the audience at Cannes, to start in the middle? It’s what drew Refn to the project in the first place. Anyone looking to review “Too Old to Die Young” was given the same two episodes (credits included) — only the episodes provided are actually the fourth and fifth episodes in the 10-episode series, a deviation from the norm that’s flummoxed a few reviewers. Refn’s The Neon Demon, which follows an aspiring model (Elle Fanning) in Los Angeles, is expected out sometime this year. Logo Concept by: Illumination Ink. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Per Variety, Refn’s “Maniac Cop” will be “set in Los Angeles” and “told through a kaleidoscope of characters, from cop to common criminal. While that may have been a matter of course at a film festival like Cannes, Refn didn’t change his approach when providing screeners for TV critics. The only difference is that they couldn’t legally put me in competition, but they gave us everything else that you would give a film. So there’s a sense of freedom creatively to you don’t to be bound by any kind of control.”. He still decides what makes it into “Too Old To Die Young” and what’s left on the cutting room floor (which may not be much, given he was only supposed to produce a 10-hour series). He’s set to team with Spectre and Skyfall scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade for an Asia-set action-thriller, which may or may not be his previously mentioned project The Avenging Silence. “No one knew what [film] essentially was. Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, director of Drive and Only God Forgives, is set to release his own personal collection of rare vintage American movie posters as a … The provocative filmmaker has announced his next project will be a series adaptation of the cult film franchise “Maniac Cop” for HBO and Canal Plus. With Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Gordon Brown. If it interests them, they’ll stay,” Refn said. “It’s how my kids watch entertainment. “What’s interesting about streaming for me — because television is dead as a doornail — but streaming is like a whole new opportunity,” he said. They’re currently working on SS-GB, an upcoming BBC series set in an alternate version of 1940s London in which the Nazis have successfully taken over Great Britain. They’ll find something and they’ll drop in. 'The English Patient' star also revealed that she has found it difficult in the past playing darker characters, citing her role as the merciless mother to Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2013 movie 'Only God Forgives'. When “Too Old to Die Young” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, it screened out of competition as a 138-minute feature, but when the same footage hits Amazon on Friday, it will be as two episodes in a 13-hour limited series. Nicolas Winding Refn announced last October he was launching a free curated website of films and essays, and now it’s almost time for that website to … That was probably the most exciting thing about being in Cannes this year — it was the future.”. Though plenty of TV writers insist their seasons are actually 10-hour films, Refn isn’t trying to be snobby when he claims the same about “Too Old to Die Young” (despite embodying the pretentious spirit of certain auteurs). I’ll buy this book.’ If you buy anything, you browse through it, and very rarely do you start at page one.”, The result: Some episodes are only 20 minutes long, while others are over two hours. Nicolas Winding Refn Brings Gun-Toting Rapists and an All-Night Car Chase to Cannes With Amazon Series, 'Too Old to Die Young' Trailer: Nicholas Winding Refn's TV Debut Visually Dazzles, Best of Emmy Awards FYC 2020: Let the Games Begin, Oscars 2021: Best International Feature Film Predictions. Though he worked closely with editors Annie Guidice and Matthew Newman during production, Refn “instinctively” cut the 13-hour film into the Amazon-mandated episodes, forming each by whenever “it feels right.”, “It’s like a book,” he said. Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death. Nicolas Winding Refn on the set of “Too Old to Die Young”. As Refn has previously explained, that character is “a mythological creature that has a mysterious past but cannot relate to reality because he’s heightened and pure fetish.” Deep stuff. It’s virtual reality.”, And yet, Refn is still in control. However, based on what little information we have about it so far, the new film sounds like it could be The Avenging Silence. And so what’s interesting about streaming is […] it’s like almost a dawn of a new ability; a new way to paint or write, whatever you want to do, essentially. A killer in uniform has uncaged mayhem upon the streets. Is he mere mortal, or a supernatural force?”, “I’ve always been a devoted admirer of John Hyams,” Refn said in a statement announcing the new series. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. “And if it’s a different concept, in a way, because it’s uncontrollable. Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. No start date or release date has been confirmed for Refn’s untitled new movie, but he’s been releasing pictures at a pretty steady clip so we’d expect it to get going sooner rather than later. This show will be an unadulterated, action-packed horror odyssey. So if viewers are expected to drop in and out of “Too Old to Die Young” at their leisure, and it doesn’t matter if they start at the beginning or in the middle, how would Refn feel if an audience member liked what they saw, but only watched 30 minutes of his 13-hour series? Purvis and Wade have teamed up on six Bond movies to date, including all four released so far during Daniel Craig’s tenure. The Amazon drama premiered at the Cannes Film Festival before making its streaming debut over the summer. “And, for the first time, the festival basically embraced the idea that streaming co-exists now. ‘Soul’ Aims for Oscar Glory as Disney Shifts to Streaming, but Not All Films Deserve the Same Release, How Closed Theaters, Drive-In Movies, and Netflix Supremacy Are Shaping Oscar Season, ‘Chicago 7’ Vs. the World: How Aaron Sorkin’s Awards-Friendly Epic Jolted a Strange Awards Season, Introducing ‘Deep Dive’: Damon Lindelof and His Team Go Behind the Scenes of ‘Watchmen’, ‘Succession’: How Editing Helps Every Dinner Scene Come to Life — Deep Dive, Becoming Hooded Justice: The ‘Watchmen’ Craft Team Analyzes the Emotional, Pivotal Scene – Deep Dive, 40 Must-See New Movies to See This Fall Season, The Best Movies Eligible for the 2021 Oscars Right Now, Jessie Buckley Won’t Explain ‘Ending Things,’ but She Will Reveal What Terrified Her Most. People don’t have the idea that something has to be a certain length because it’s like a book or going to a gallery or looking at a painting. They look at the Internet as a kind of coexistence; like it’s like a beam around them that they’ll just drop in and drop out of.”. What if that was enough for them? “Too Old to Die Young” premieres in its entirety Friday, June 14 on Amazon Prime. He said there’s an old mentality based in how entertainment used to be consumed, and a new mentality — “which my kids are a part of, like almost Elle Fanning and downwards” — that’s “more sophisticated and more intuitive.
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