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Check out the official synopsis for Nicolas Winding Refn’s next film

Nicolas Winding Refn‘s last film The Neon Demon managed to split audiences right down the middle. Some hated it, but some loved it immensely, and after a couple of viewings, I fell into the latter category. With that film done and dusted, the Danish director has set his sights on his next project, a film titled The Avenging Silence, for which an extended synopsis has just been released.

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote the screenplay for the film, which is being billed as an action film. It sounds intriguing and very unlike his previous efforts. Check this out…

“A former European spy, accepts a confidential mission from a Japanese businessman exiled to France to take down the head of the most treacherous Yakuza boss in Japan. The spy was one of the leading spies in Europe. An injury inflicted to his vocal cords during a failed mission six years ago left him mute, forcing him to leave his profession.

Now, six years later, he is sought out and put on confidential assignment by a former Yakuza, now a retired Japanese businessman in exile in France, to track down and kill the head of the most dangerous Yakuza family in Japan.

Afraid of flying, our spy anonymously boards a cargo ship headed for Tokyo. An onboard explosion sinks the ship and our spy finds himself washed ashore on a life raft in southern Japan. As a mute, our spy must silently journey through Japan seeking four clues – symbolizing conquest, war, famine, and death – which will guide him to the unknown location of the Yakuza boss.

Meanwhile, the Yakuza boss, known for his 2004 mass slaughter of Yakuza members who had turned against him, is believed to be plotting to re-enter the Japanese underworld after living in his own surreptitious world in the mountains, void of all technology. This way of life becomes an obsession for the Yakuza boss.

Rumors spread that he had committed suicide years ago but escaped prisoners from his hidden camp told stories of his plan for a comeback. Now rival Yakuza families suspect he is forming a master plan to return, a plan that unburies the most infamous story of Yakuza betrayal.

Our spy finds himself on an existential journey through Japan in search of pieces to the puzzle that will lead him to a confrontation with the ultimate Yakuza boss in a terrifying conclusion..”

No word on when this one will roll, or who will lead the cast, but we’re expecting production to kick off sometime this year. More as it is fired our way.

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