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The Neon Demon by Nicolas Winding Refn for Gaumont and Wild Bunch

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- The two French companies will kick start presales of the Danish director’s new movie at the AFM. Filming will begin in the first quarter of 2015

The Neon Demon by Nicolas Winding Refn for Gaumont and Wild Bunch
Artwork for The Neon Demon

Previously connected for international sales of Only God Forgives [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Winding Refn
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(in competition at Cannes in 2013), Gaumont and Wild Bunch are getting together once again to co-finance and sell the new movie by Danish Nicolas Winding Refn (also director of the Pusher trilogy, Bronson [+see also:
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, Valhalla Rising [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Winding Refn
film profile
]
and Drive): The Neon Demon [+see also:
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Written by Winding Refn and by Mary Laws, the screenplay of The Neon Demon describes a terrifying story that will be played young actresses. When asked about his inspiration for this project, the director said: "one morning, I woke up and I realised that I was both surrounded by women and dominated by women. Oddly, I had this pressing desire to make a horror movie about vicious beauty. After directing Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew that I had to go back there to tell the story of The Neon Demon."

Production will be managed by Lene Borglum, partner of Refn in their joint venture, Space Rocket. Filming will begin in the first quarter of 2015 in Los Angeles with photography director Philippe Le Sourd (The Grandmaster), film-editor Matthew Newman and composer Cliff Martinez.

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(Translated from French)

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