Nicolas Winding Refn has been talking about a Maniac Cop remake for years. Back in 2015 it was as a movie he would produce from Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning director John Hyams. Even then, he’d been talking about that since 2012. That version never materialized and despite periodic rumblings, we all assumed it was one of the many, many potential projects he expounds on that would never happen—it’s a regular occurrence. But here we are, in the year of our lord 2019, and there’s news that HBO is going to let Refn turn Maniac Cop into a series. And the world sucks a little bit less for the moment.
After the critical and popular acclaim of
Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn’s last two movies, Only God Forgives and The Neon Demon (both of which I
adore, by the way), took a lot of flack. Still, my favorite NWR joint is 2009’s
under-appreciated, epic, hallucinatory Viking road trip, Valhalla
Rising. Off-kilter, savage, and hypnotic, it’s right in my
wheelhouse. A ton of new plot details have emerged about the filmmaker’s next
project, The Avenging Silence, and it sound like it strays
into similarly nightmarish thematic territory, which is nice.
Isn’t this always the case? We go for what feels like
forever not seeing much from a movie that we’re super pumped for, and when we
get the first splash it turns into a wave. I sincerely hope that’s what’s
happening with Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon. Just yesterday
we got the very first trailer, and today we woke up to a quick new U.K. teaser.
Heads up, if you’re on the clock, maybe check to make sure your boss isn’t
looking over your shoulder, this one’s a wee bit NSFW.
One of the things I look forward to like little else is the arrival
of a new Nicolas Winding Refn movie. His latest, The NeonDemon, is, understandably, a film I’ve been keeping an eye on for
quite some time. Though it hits later this year, we haven’t seen much, aside
from a handful of stills and posters. That is, until today. The first trailer
for the modeling-world-set horror thriller just dropped, and it’s dark, sexy,
and twisted. Check it out after the jump.
We’ve been hearing about Nicolas Winding Refn’s female-centered
horror film The Neon Demon for a while. We don’t know much
about it, though production is reportedly about to wrap and now we’ve got a
couple new photos to gawk at, and this certainly looks like a movie that sprung
forth from Refn’s peculiar brain as they’re both gruesome and highly stylized.
