Nicolas Winding Refn is preparing to start filming a new movie

Nicolas Winding Refn hasn’t directed a film since The Neon Demon eight years ago, but he’s finally gearing up for a new project.

Motivation director Nicolas Winding Refn has not directed a film since The Neon Demon was released eight years ago, but that’s all set to change. Variety reports that Refn is preparing to shoot his next film in Tokyo next year, which will be in English and Japanese.

Despite his once claiming that “the cinema is dead,Refn believes the time is right to return.It’s a very interesting time to make films because the situation is so chaotic,“he said.”So going back and making a feature film again is almost like not starting over, but with all the changes in our societies over the last five years and technological changes, it almost seems like the right thing to do for me.“

There aren’t many details about Refn’s new film, but he did promise that it will “will contain lots of glitter and (a lot of) sex and violence.The director added that “Feature film is still the mother of all media,“and he’s excited to”to relive that process“after his break from the feature film world.”I think it’s hard for me to escape my self-absorbed identity in creativity,“he said.”So I’ll always be in it.“

Although this project will be Refn’s first new film in nearly a decade, he has not been sitting still. He directed and co-wrote Too old to die younga ten-episode series for Prime Video starring Miles Teller as “a grieving police officer who, along with the man who shot his partner, finds himself caught up in an underworld of working-class hitmen, Yakuza soldiers, drug cartel assassins sent from Mexico, Russian mafia leaders and gangs of teenage killers.“

He also returned to his native Denmark for Copenhagen Cowboyhis first Danish-language project since Push 3The Netflix series follows a “enigmatic young heroine, Miu. After a life of slavery and on the brink of a new beginning, she traverses the ominous landscape of Copenhagen’s criminal underworld. In search of justice and revenge, she encounters her arch-nemesis, Rakel, as they embark on an odyssey through the natural and the supernatural. The past transforms and ultimately defines their future, as the two women discover that they are not alone, they are many.“