Streaming service turned studio has acquired distribution rights to Drive director’s tale of murderous LA models,starring Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, and Christina Hendricks and Jena MaloneAmazon Studios has picked up its most significant title since it acquired Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq earlier this year. The Neon Demon,which Amazon bought at the American Film Institute festival in Los Angeles, is the original film from director Nicolas Winding Refn. It is a starry horror about an aspiring model who moves to LA and becomes the envy of a group of beauty-obsessed women.“One morning I woke and realised I was both surrounded and dominated by women, and Refn said. “Strangely,a sudden urge was planted in me to perform a horror film about vicious beauty.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com