When
we last sat down to talk to
Nicolas Winding Refn, he spoke about a project he was developing that would be set in Tokyo. He mentioned a fondness for the Yakuza, suggesting that this film would find him re-visiting a crime underworld similar to that in
Only God Forgives and
Drive. But no one could have guessed it would be
a sequel to
Valhalla Rising?We spoke to Refn on the eve of the North American premiere for Only God Forgives and he revealed that project was a re-teaming with Valhalla Rising star
Mads Mikkelsen, saying they had, talked about revisiting the [One-Eye] character from Valhalla Rising again to kind of complete
because theres a similarity between Valhalla Rising, Drive and Only God Forgives. But in a way I had this idea of Mads Mikklesen to go back to the origins of this character. But make the movie in Tokyo.
When asked how this could be a sequel, Refn cryptically said, Tokyo is a world onto itself. This didnt seem to clear up exactly how One Eye could emerge from the early Viking era to modern day Tokyo, so when pressed, Refn teased that the film was, About the future
While Refn begins work on the
Barbarella television series, its possible this could be his next film after "I Walk With The Dead," as hes long spoken about his affinity for Tokyo. Whatever the case, it would be impossible for us to not get excited at the thought of
Valhalla Rising 2: Tokyo Drift.
