Drive Once A Neil Marshall And Hugh Jackman Movie Becomes A Nicolas Winding Refn And Ryan Gosling Movie

Drive, Once A Neil Marshall And Hugh Jackman Movie, Becomes A Nicolas Winding Refn And Ryan Gosling Movie

By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2010 10:45 am EST

So, yeah, same story, new people.

But wai, what about that Refn movie that Harrison Ford was talking about recently? We speculated that would be the Paul Schrader script The Dying of the Light, and Ford said he hoped to be doing the film in March. That would certainly make it Refn’s next film. Or would have made it his next — anything could have happened. Interesting questions. We’ll dig and get more info. Refn does say Gosling is the lead in Drive, so if Ford were somehow involved he’d be supporting.

In Drive, [Sallis] combines murder, treachery, and payback in a sinister plot resembling 1940s pulp fiction and film noir. Told through a complex, cinematic narrative that weaves back and forth through time and place, the story explores Driver’s near-existential moral foundations while revisiting its root cause: his hardscrabble, troubled childhood.

Refn has a million projects going right now. There’s the finished Valhalla Rising, set for release later this year from IFC. There’s Jeckyll, the Western God Only Forgives and a heist movie with Gore Verbinski, in addition to Drive and The Dying of the Light. Frankly, I’ll take any of those. Better yet, let’s see them all.