Director Nicolas Winding Refn has finally settled on his next project and will find himself returning to Los Angeles to film THE NEON DEMON. The picture is being billed a horror film led by a female cast. Refn wrote the screenplay along with Mary Laws and principal photography starts in early 2015. His usual collaborators, director of photography Philippe Le Sourd, editor Matthew Newman and composer Cliff Martinez, are all set to take part.
Nicolas Winding Refn on the inspiration for THE NEON DEMON:
One morning I woke and realized I was both surrounded and dominated by women. Strangely, a sudden urge was planted in me to make a horror film about vicious beauty.
Refn is one of those directors that no matter how much I try to prepare myself or get in the mindset for one of his films, he still slaps me around with a giant palm of WTF. Love them or hate them, his films make great conversation pieces and I love going with my friends to check out his latest in theaters. While I'm a little sad (let's be real, a lottle) that the Carey Mulligan sex serial I WALK WITH THE DEAD is not his next picture, I'm sure his idea of a horror film is still going to blow my mind away and into the the three rows behind me.
THE NEON DEMON is set to shoot in early 2015.