We now have a title and the principal cast for Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s next film, Her Private Hell. More on that below.
Some of us have been waiting for a very long time – 9 years to be exact – for news about a new Nicolas Winding Refn movie. The Danish director last graced the big screen with 2016’s deliciously deviant The Neon Demon before turning his gaze to the small screen, but Refn is now making what we hope will be a victorious return to the world of cinema.
Neon is co-financing and distributing the film and the studio took to Twitter/X to announce “Something groovy” with the new film’s title and some of the cast. Warfare and May December star Charles Melton, Companion’s Sophie Thatcher, Kristine Froseth, and Havana Rose Liu are set to star in the Danish auteur’s next film.
Plot details are being kept tightly under wraps for now, but Refn did promise last year that his new film, which at the time was reported to be filmed in Tokyo, would include a lot of sex, violence and glitter. Sounds like we’re in for a very classic NWR film, then.
Production on the film is expected to begin in the summer, but Refn is a busy man. He’s currently working on a mysterious gaming project after appearing in Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding, which is also getting its own film adaptation. Whether Refn will reprise his role as Heartman from the game is still unclear.
”In a way, had the Lumiere brothers, when they invented film, invented computer games first, what would the world look like?” the director commented on his move to the gaming world. Refn has recently been working in television, creating Too Old To Die Young for Prime Video, Copenhagen Cowboy for Netflix and The Famous Five for the BBC.
We’ll bring you more news on Her Private Hell as we hear them.
