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We have indeed a confirmation and more precision that Refn is preparing a new project(which probably will be a mini-serie) for Netflix: "Copenhagen Cowboy", so eager to know more! No doubt this project will look crazy and boundaries-pushed, as always with him.
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For weeks now, as he’s done in the past with previous film or TV series, Danish filmmaker and enfante terrible Nicolas Winding Refn has been hyping up a new project called “Copenhagen Cowboy” on his Instagram. This past week, the filmmaker revealed that his teenage daughter, LizzieLou Winding Refn, who he often features on his Instagram page in playful dance sequences, would be the star of the project. But what is “Cophenhagen Cowboy” exactly. A limited series like his previous Amazon crime drama, “Too Young To Die Old,” a film like the oedipal fight/revenge drama, “Only God Forgives” (2013), or psychological horror film “The Neon Demon” (2016)?

Well, thanks to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), of all places, who have lodged a complaint about the project, we have some answers. Apparently, it’s a Danish Netflix series, and PETA has claimed a whistleblower has notified them that a “pig was shot and killed” for the making of a series.

PETA shared part of a letter they sent to Netflix co-CEO Reed Hasting, urging the scene to be removed from the series.

“Killing a sentient being and exploiting that death for the sake of entertainment is unacceptable and may be illegal,” says PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange. “No animal should suffer or die for human entertainment, and PETA is calling on Netflix to leave on the cutting room floor any footage that might glorify this pig’s needless, senseless slaughter.”

Furthermore, PETA alleges that the “farmer who supplied live pigs admitted that one was going to be killed specifically for a scene in the show. Copenhagen Zoo confirmed receiving a dead pig from the production, and Danish police are currently investigating.”

That’s a strange way to get confirmation about a new filmmaking project, but there it is. What the project is actually about is unknown. It should also be reiterated that killing animals on a film set is unethical, unnecessary, and yes, potentially illegal and should not be condoned.

It might be unfair to suggest, but it’s also perhaps not entirely a surprise as Refn loves to prod and provoke. Refn is already a controversial, goading filmmaker who likes to push buttons and sometimes seems a little bit tone-deaf about current cultural shifts. His series, “Too Young To Die Old,” starring Miles Teller, which seemingly no one watched given how little press there was about it, might be an indication of where he’s at these days, as it was arguably purposefully offensive and disturbing (and also kind of twistedly brilliant). It’s kind of an odious and repellant work in spots, featuring so many gratuitous, problematic, near-pornographic moments of violence, sex, and fetishistic sexual violence. But as a deeply angry screed about the state of America under Trump,” but it’s also an undeniably blistering work that’s hard to turn away from. Our review of the film described it as an “audacious, hypnodrone porno nightmare of Post-Trump polarity.” It’s hard to defend and yet a striking, furious work full of contradiction.

Refn, who once went bankrupt from investing his own money to finish his films, once turned down what would have been the career-making James Bond “Spectre,” if that’s any indication of how unwilling he is to play by anyone’s rules other than his own.
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Looks like Nicolas Winding Refn's new serie project Copenhagen Cowboy is now officialy confirmed at Netflix and has entered production on December!
He's working with a danish director of photography on this one : Magnus Nordenhof Jønck.
I really can't wait to discover what he's prepping! Sounds really ambitious and special, as always with him.
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Does anyone can have access to ProductionWeekly to see if there're more informations about it?

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Nicolas Winding Refn is diving into the neon-tinted underbelly of Copenhagen in his latest neo-noir series.

The “Drive” and “Neon Demon” director is set to write and direct “Copenhagen Cowboy” for Netflix, the streamer confirmed. The “poetic neo-noir” six-episode series follows a young heroine, Miu (Angela Bundalovic), who travels through Copenhagen’s criminal underworld.

The drama is filmed in Denmark and production has wrapped as of July 2022. “Copenhagen Cowboy” will premiere globally on Netflix later this year.

“With ‘Copenhagen Cowboy,’ I am returning to my past to shape my future by creating a series, an expansion of my constantly evolving alter-egos, now in the form of my young heroine, Miu,” Refn said in a press release statement.

The “Only God Forgives” writer-director said it has “been an absolutely wonderful experience on all levels” working with Netflix.

“I not only perceive them as my partners with many future adventures to come, but also as my friends,” Refn added. “The new term has been born: Netflix Winding Refn.”

Netflix Nordic Original Series director Jenny Stjernströmer Björk called Refn “one of Denmark’s most acclaimed filmmakers” ranging from the “Pusher” films to the “Too Old to Die Young” 2019 miniseries.

“Copenhagen Cowboy” now is “bringing [Refn] back to Denmark to produce a local Danish show after more than 15 years abroad,” Björk explained. “Nicolas is a creative force and is such a fascinating and unpredictable filmmaker. We can’t wait to bring Copenhagen Cowboy to the world.”

The series stars Angela Bundalovic, Lola Corfixen and Zlatko Buric. Additional cast includes Andreas Lykke Jørgensen, Jason Hendil-Forssell, Li Ii Zhang, Dragana Milutinovic, Mikael Bertelsen and Mads Brügger among others.

In addition to “Copenhagen Cowboy,” Refn is wrangling upcoming film “Maniac Cop” about a cocaine-addicted LAPD officer who begins destroying his own city. Refn is also in development on TV series “Les Italiens” about an Italian-French police squad in Paris.

Refn previously explained during the 2019 Cannes Film Festival that Miles Teller-led series “Too Old to Die Young” was a “13-hour movie” for Amazon Prime Video.

“This is the future, which is streaming,” Refn stated. “Streaming is an ocean of possibilities. It’s so interesting to just come to work every day and just paint, until I ran out of money. I think the studios are ultimately getting ready for streaming, that’s common knowledge. The difference between streaming and more traditional theatrical is that streaming is an energy flow around us that runs 24 hours a day and seven days a week, and we can tap into and consume it whenever we want. That is a whole new ideology for how to exist.”

Refn continued to call traditional TV as “dead as a doornail” with streaming offering a “whole new opportunity” for filmmakers.

“It’s a different concept, in a way, because it’s uncontrollable. You just log on [and] log off. It’s a coexistence now,” Refn concluded. “Episodic television was designed when television was once a week on an analog channel. Why do we still retain the same narrative and constructions from a time that doesn’t even exist?
Can't wait to find out what Refn is up to next! And judging by the description and the first synopsis, it sounds like an extension of the filmmaker's obsessions and like a twist on Too Old to Die Young.

The project would apparently be selected for the Venice Film Festival.

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Netflix Drops Trailer for ‘Copenhagen Cowboy,’ Nicolas Winding Refn on His Cathartic Experience Filming the Venice-Premiering Series (EXCLUSIVE)

It took a pandemic and a lockdown for “Drive” director Nicolas Winding Refn to make a directorial comeback in Denmark, where he had delivered the “Pusher” trilogy early in his career.

“Sometimes the strangest things come in mysterious ways, and this is one of those,” Refn says of “Copenhagen Cowboy,” his Netflix original series, slated to world premiere Sept. 9 at the Venice Film Festival.

Since “Drive,” Winding Refn has directed the Bangkok-set thriller “Only God Forgives,” with “Drive” star Ryan Gosling; “The Neon Demon,” with Elle Fanning playing an aspiring model in Los Angeles.; and the Amazon Prime Video series “Too Old to Die Young,” starring Miles Teller as a grieving cop in crime-ridden Southern California. He was preparing another project set abroad when the pandemic hit.

“We were stuck as a family back in Denmark and I came up with this idea,” he says, noting his wife, Liv Corfixen, executive produced the series, and his two daughters, Lola and Lizzielou, star in it. “It became a wonderful creative process where I was no longer living in two separate worlds as a creator by day and a family man by night. It’s a new chapter in my way of working but also in our lives.”

Refn has faced some criticism over the use of gratuitous violence in his films, notably “Only God Forgives” and “The Neon Demon.” But he says he’s “not a violent person.”

“If there is violence in what I do, it’s because I believe that’s what the painting needed,” he says, adding that “art is an act of violence. It’s meant to violate you, penetrate your mind. It’s like giving birth. It’s a beautiful, but also a violent act. “

While the plot of “Copenhagen Cowboy” remains under wraps, Refn suggests that it has greater depth than some of his previous work.

“It sounds like a cliché, but the older you get, the more concerned you become about the world. I think it’s a responsibility to take that seriously,” he says.

“’Too Old to Die Young’ was certainly a prediction of what America has turned into post-Trump. It was a show made at that specific time with what was being fed to me through media and what my own concerns and obsessions were. ‘Copenhagen Cowboy’ is a continuation of that,” he continues.

The filmmaker also says the new series had a fantasy element, “along the lines of what Hans Christian Andersen would do, a fairy tale that reflects everything around.” He says the “hero” of the show (played by Angela Bundalovic) is “almost based on on his wife, “at least when it comes to her powers.”

Refn also praised Netflix for understanding his vision from the very start and giving him “a lot of enthusiasm moving forward.” “It was a really fast and enjoyable process. I created the show, made the deal with Netflix and hired some wonderful female writers (Sara Isabella Jönsson, Johanne Algren) from Denmark and we wrote it in six months. A year later, we’re launching it in Venice.” He also produced the show through his banner NWR, along with Lene Børglum and Christina Bostofte Erritzøe.

“Copenhagen Cowboy” looks as stylish as Refn’s previous work, with a key crew including well-known cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck (“A Hijacking”), production designer Gitte Malling (“Land of Mine”) and music by Cliff Martinez, Peter Peter, Peter Kyed and Julian Winding.

Although he’s made several films in the U.S., Winding Refn never directed one for a studio. He admits that he was approached to direct a James Bond movie (believed to be “Spectre”) but that was it. “We just met and it was a wonderful meeting. But you know, not everything is supposed to happen. Sometimes it’s more fun to talk about it than actually realizing it,” he says.

He says the best piece of advice he’s ever received was from Elia Kazan, who told him some 26 years ago, after he had directed “Pusher”: “Do it your way.”

While he had a cathartic experience working from home in Denmark, Refn suggests he’s not done exploring Los Angeles.

“I have enormous love for Los Angeles and working there,” he says. “It’s built on a desert — it’s like an alien landscape and an alien environment. So for me, it’s like flying to Mars and shooting there.”

A reunion with Gosling could also be in the cards for Winding Refn. “Ryan is very much part of my life. We’re very interconnected to each other’s existence creatively and personally, and I love him very much and I’m sure we’ll work again in the future. We talk about it all the time.”
I'm really excited to see what's new he has created, can't wait for the reviews today. Judging by the trailer, he seems to have radicalised his visions even more.
A new reunion with Ryan Gosling would also be a dream, and I hope he'll do a film again after his two mini-series. I'm also very curious to see what this other project he was working on could be.

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Count me in for anything Gosling does with Cianfrance, Chazelle or NWR. Gosling's amazing run through the last decade is also due to him choosing director very wisely.

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