“Drive” romanticizes a lot of things that shouldn’t be romanticized: The myth of redemptive violence, dangerous and illegal driving, robbery, evading police and, most egregiously, Members Only jackets. But one thing Nicolas Winding Refn’s 80s-themed, stone-cold badass tale gets right, is the sheer power of cinematic style. The director of other style-over-substance masterpieces such as [...]
LONDON — Vertigo Films and Embargo Films announced Tuesday that shooting will begin on the English language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn’s drug film, “Pusher,” on May 8, 2011. Spanish director Luis Prieto (“Meno Male Che Ci Sei”) will direct the London-based remake, which stars Agyness Deyn, Richard Coyle, Bronson Webb and Paul Kaye. Refn [...]
Ron Perlman has signed on to star opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn’s (“Bronson”) action drama “Drive,” according to ScreenDaily. Perlman is the latest addition to an already stellar cast featuring Gosling as a loner Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for robberies and finds himself in trouble when he helps the [...]
Since 1975, Michael Peterson, later dubbed Charles Bronson after the “Death Wish” star, has been England’s most explosively unstable and notorious inmate. Initially incarcerated for seven years after a botched armed robbery, Bronson has added decades to his sentence (spending 30 out of 34 years in solitary confinement) with an avaricious proclivity for introducing mayhem [...]
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Universal Pictures will help Keanu Reeves continue his losing streak of remaking old Hollywood classics. Reeves recently starred in the sci-fi remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and will soon be giving “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the same treatment. Are you rolling your [...]
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