Nicolas Winding Refn's Next Film Is 'I Walk With The Dead'

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Next Film Is ‘I Walk With The Dead’

Nicolas Winding Refnseems to have a number of interesting projects brewing at any given time, but he’s finally decided which one he wants to make his next directorial effort. And for once, it won’t involve Ryan Gosling. Probably.

The Danish filmmaker is next set to helmI Walk With the Dead, an “all-female horror film” that at one point hadCarey Mulliganattached to star. Hit the jump for all the details.

The silence has been broken my next film will be I WALK WITH THE DEAD shooting in LA

— Nicolas Winding Refn (@NicolasWR)August 18, 2025

I Walk With the Deadhas been on Refn’s to-do list for several years already. In 2011, hisDrivestar Mulligan signed on for the lead, but it’s unclear whether she’s still involved. The last big update we got on it was last fall, when Refn brought UK writerPolly Stenhamon boardto write the screenplay.

The female focus ofI Walk With the Deadsounds like quite a change of pace for Refn, whose films are often concerned with masculinity. But according to Stenham, that’s kind of the point. “He’s got a lot of stick for doing films some people think are violently misogynistic,” she told the press last year. So he approached me with the idea of doing something different."

Beyond that, plot details on the thriller are still scarce. Refn has said in the past that the movie will involve “lots of sex” and might be set in Miami or Tokyo. We presume the first part hasn’t changed, but Refn’s tweet suggests that the setting is now Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Refn still has lots of other projects on the backburner including the Tokyo-setThe Avenging Silenceand the Sony horrorThe Bringing. In addition, he’s producing theManiac Copwith original director William Lustig, and has aBarbarellaTV series in the works for Amazon. His last release wasOnly God Forgives, starring Ryan Gosling.