Copenhagen Cowboy: Nicolas Winding Refn takes you on a new neon synthwave journey in Netflix series trailer

Get ready to immerse yourself back into a wave of neon color and synth track insanity as the trailer drops for the new Nicolas Winding Refn series. Netflix has just released the trailer on Twitter for his noir titled Copenhagen Cowboy. This will be a limited episode series that is described as a poetic neo-noir and will be making its debut at the Venice Film Festival. The series will be starring Angela Bundalovic, Lola Corfixen, and Zlatko Buric, as well as Andreas Lykke Jørgensen, Jason Hendil-Forssell, Li Ii Zhang, Dragana Milutinovic, Mikael Bertelsen, and Mads Brügger.

The new Netflix series from Refn will be “a thrill-inducing, neon-drenched noir series set across six episodes which follows enigmatic young heroine Miu. After a lifetime of servitude and on the verge of a new beginning, she traverses the ominous landscape of Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld. Searching for justice and enacting vengeance, she encounters her nemesis, Rakel, as they embark on an odyssey through the natural and the supernatural. The past ultimately transforms and defines their future, as the two women discover they are not alone, they are many.”

Refn is no stranger to exploring the dark underground of the criminal world with films like the Pusher trilogy, Drive, and Only God Forgives. Refn had been restricted to Copenhagen due to the COVID pandemic, so the auteur once again explores the underworld of his home country since Pusher. This will not be the first television project for the director as he had also brought Amazon’s 2019 series, Too Old to Die Young, starring Miles Teller.

Refn spoke to IndieWire about the project, and he is a rare cinematic director who champions the streaming world as he loved to “just come to work every day and just paint until I ran out of money.” He is a fan of the accessibility of the content and knows to embrace the changing landscape of the film industry.

The Netflix series Copenhagen Cowboy has not yet announced a release date, but it is due this year, simply saying it is “coming soon.”

Are you excited? What’s your favorite Nicolas Winding Refn project?