Nicolas Winding Refn To Direct Horror Film ‘The Bringing’

[kvz5]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/nic...-to-helm-sony-haunted-hotel-pic-the-bringing/

Nicolas Winding Refn In Talks To Helm Sony Haunted Hotel Pic ‘The Bringing’

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Winding Refn is in early talks to direct The Bringing, the horror movie spec by Brandon and Phillip Murphy that Sony Pictures acquired in a competitive bidding battle in February. Matt Tolmach is producing with First Born Films’ Daniela Cretu. This is the one that got the town whipped into a frenzy partly because its catalyst was a widely circulated video of a young woman who displayed erratic behavior in an elevator at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, the place where such killers as Richard Ramirez called home at one time or other, and where numerous suicides have occurred. The woman, Elisa Lam, was found dead in the water tanks at the roof of the hotel. The script has nothing really to do with that that tragedy but it created a germ of an idea focusing on a man investigating a death at the hotel, and the nightmare he stumbles into.

Refn must have seen the video, because while the director of Drive, Valhalla Rising and Bronson is usually courted for projects, he sought this one out. From his Copenhagen home, he is a horror connoisseur who badly wants to make a terrifying film. This sounds a bit like The Shining, where Stanley Kubrick has similar aspirations, and turned Stephen King’s novel in to the standard for movies about haunted hotels. If the deal making works out, Refn will get his chance to make one too. It was an easy sell for Sony, all big fans of Refn. Sony production president Michael De Luca and Rachel O’Connor are steering the pic. Refn is repped by WME, Anonymous Content and Independent Talent.

 

[UltraSuperGuy]

I loved Drive but hated Only God Forgives. Hopefully this will be more of the former.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Hopefully starring Ryan Gosling.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I dig Refn. I'd love to see what he does with a horror flick

 

[Hurm...]

I'm ****ing in.

 

[redhawk23]

Are you guys familiar with the case referenced in the report above?

Because that is one of the strangest stories I've ever heard, with the woman last seen on camera running away from someone and hiding in an elevator, then being found in a water tank after the visitors of the hotel had been drinking her remains for days, followed by the tuberculosis outbreak and the name for the type of TB test performed on people near the hotel had the same name as the woman.

So goddamn weird. It appears that this movie doesn't really involved that case, but really a really crazy movie could be made out of it. That case is terrifyingly weird.

 

[kvz5]

Deadline also has this YT video at their link:

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Refn doing a horror film, prepare to be ****ing freaked out. Only God Forgives was pretty disturbing. Refn cites Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a favorite of his and I expect it to be an influence.

 

[weezerspider]

I really like Refn, so I'll see this regardless. Not a big horror fan, but The Shining is my favorite Kubrick film, so I'm sure any genre film can be good with strong direction.

 

[Black Narcissus]

I bet Carey Mulligan will be cast. Refn is pretty smitten with her.

 

[Man in the Suit]

He used Eyes Wide Shut's cinematographer for Only God Forgives, and some of the music in that gave me Shining vibes. That whole movie was a like a Lynchian Kubrick horror movie.

Can't wait.

 

[StarLord]

I bet Carey Mulligan will be cast. Refn is pretty smitten with her.

I thought they were doing a movie together called 'Walk with the Dead'?

 

[dark_b]

modern horror movies are all the same
-silence
-empty room
-loud sound
-monster jumping infront of the camera.

Refn will do something unique. so prepare to be scared for life.

 

[The Endless]

You can see Lynch influences in his work already. So i expect this to be really atmospheric with a sense of unexplainable dread. Proper psychological horror.

 

[Drz]

Oh Yes. <3

 

[Lord]

Well, i'dd say that The Conjuring was able to be more than just that, but yeah, horror films in general have been following the same formula, another popular one is uping the gore

 

[:eek:]

Are you guys familiar with the case referenced in the report above?

Because that is one of the strangest stories I've ever heard, with the woman last seen on camera running away from someone and hiding in an elevator, then being found in a water tank after the visitors of the hotel had been drinking her remains for days, followed by the tuberculosis outbreak and the name for the type of TB test performed on people near the hotel had the same name as the woman.

So goddamn weird. It appears that this movie doesn't really involved that case, but really a really crazy movie could be made out of it. That case is terrifyingly weird.

The woman suffered from bipolar disorder. Nothing mysterious about her death. Just sad. And it just makes me sick that Hollywood takes tragedies like this as "inspiration" for horror movies

 

[redhawk23]

The woman suffered from bipolar disorder. Nothing mysterious about her death. Just sad. And it just makes me sick that Hollywood takes tragedies like this as "inspiration" for horror movies

Nothing mysterious about her death? No one has a clue how her body ended up in the water tank.