HBO greenlights a TV reboot of the Maniac Cop franchise, with Nicolas Winding Refn serving as showrunner and directing alongside John Hyams.
CANNES – The advent of streaming platforms has allowed for experimentation in episodic content in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Recently, Netflix released a number of series constituted of just 15-minute episodes as well as a choose your own adventure movie in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Auteur filmmakers such as David Fincher, Spike Lee and Jane Champion, who had barely dabbled in narrative television previously have brought their talents to what has been dubbed the era of Peak TV. Now, after two years of production and editing, Nicolas Winding Refn premiered two episodes of his new Prime Video …
Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, The Neon Demon) has been hard at work on the Los Angeles-based crime thriller series, Too Old to Die Young. For his latest collaboration with Amazon Prime Video, Refn directed, produced, and co-wrote the series with Ed Brubaker (Captain America: The Winter Soldier comics); Brubaker is also on board as a producer. Today, fans everywhere can get a look at the project thanks to the blood-soaked, neon-lit, and highly dramatic first trailer. Too Old to Die Young explores the criminal underbelly of LA through various characters’ existential journeys, described as going from "…