He’s currently busy editing his latest, LA-set horror thriller The Neon Demon, but as usual Nicolas Winding Refn has a variety of projects in development that could become his next filmmaking gig. Talking to Collider, he revealed that one of the prime contenders is a movie called **The Avenging Silence.
According to Refn, the film, which he has occasionally mentioned in the last couple of years, is roughly in the spy genre and about the future, but would also dig into his own past, focusing on a character – or at least an archetype – from other films he’s made. “It’s basically a character that appears in my other movies that will now appear again. Having done The Neon Demon, which was predominantly women protagonists, but the character that Mads Mikkelsen plays in** Valhalla Rising**, Ryan Gosling plays him in Drive or Vithaya Pansringarm in Only God Forgives, I want to make a new movie with that character.”
He’s aiming to film the new project in Tokyo, but wouldn’t be drawn on any other details just yet. And for now, it’s simply under consideration with a variety of ideas, since we know he’s also working up at least two other possibilities including horror scripts The Bringing and I Walk With The Dead. The Neon Demon should be with us next year.