The cameras have already started to roll on Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest stab at the dark heart of the world. He’s currently conjuring up female-led horror movie The Neon Demon, and has just added Desmond Harrington to the ensemble.
Elle Fanning leads a cast that also includes Jena Malone, Karl Glusman, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves in the story that finds aspiring model Jesse (Fanning) moving to the City Of Angels only to find that it hides some very dark terrors. In short, “Her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women that will do anything to take what she has.” Which, weirdly, is paraphrased from a slogan on one of the greeting signs when you land at LAX.
“I very much look forward to the odyssey I’ll be taking with all these wonderful actresses (and a few guys) to travel beyond The Neon Demon where all I see is the wicked dying young,” Refn says in a statement. He wrote the script with Mary Laws and is aiming to have the film ready for next year.
Harrington has most recently been seen on TV’s Dexter and Those Who Kill, and The Neon Demon is the only project on his career radar at the moment.