The Weinstein Company Digital Label Picks Up ‘Only God Forgives’, Next Movie From ‘Drive’ Team of Gosling and Refn.

Drive. You know, *that* movie. Made the ladies swoon and the dudes wish they could smolder. Actually, it also made the dudes swoon and the ladies smolder. Pretty much everyone who saw it that I’ve came across totally rubbed their groins against the back of a chair after seeing it. Anyways! Fucking anyways. Drive‘s tandem of director  Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling are making a new flick together, and it was dropped by FilmDistrict, the distributor of the Drive. No fucking worries.

Slashfilm:

The  Drive  duo of writer/director  Nicolas Winding Refn  (Pusher,  Bronson) and actorRyan Gosling  have joined forces once more to shoot  Only God Forgives, a western set in Thailand. The film is in production now, and the bad news is that a distribution deal we assumed was going to come through, with Drive distributor FilmDistrict, has failed.

But there’s good news: Radius-TWC, a Weinstein Company offshoot label that is focused on cross-platform distribution with an emphasis on VOD, is in talks to pick up the film.

A press release went out today to announce the deal. One key point is that two major figures in Radius are Tom Quinn and Jason Janego, a duo that has a good bit of experience with Refn already. They were at Magnolia when the company released thePusher  trilogy in the mid-aughts (that was a re-release of the first film, with debut release of the second and third) and then when Magnolia handled  Bronson. And Radius also recently picked up the remake of the first  Pusher, which was produced by Refn.

I ranted for a good while to our own Eduardo Pluto about why FilmDistrict failed to close the deal on this shit.  He essentially went “Blah blah blah” and I swore some more. I’m still confused. Whatever the case, I can’t wait to see this. To swoon and smolder and generally rub up against chairs after watching it, causing friction burns.