Amazon and Netflix aren’t anticipated to have any feature films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but that isn’t preventing at least one of them from having a presence. Deadline is reporting that Amazon is ready to send Nicolas Winding Refn over to France with his upcoming TV series “Too Old to Die Young” as a special screening at the festival.
The report says that Refn’s upcoming crime thriller, starring Miles Teller, is likely to become the third TV series to ever have a special screening at the prestigious event. “Too Old to Die Young” would join David Lynch’s latest season of “Twin Peaks” and Jane Campion’s “Top of the Lake” as the only series to ever be featured at the film festival.
The official line-up of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival is expected to be released later this week, so we aren’t completely sure how Refn’s latest work will be featured. Considering Cliff Martinez’s (the series’ composer) recent comments about each of the episodes of “Too Old to Die Young” being approximately 90 minutes in length, it could be that Refn will bring over the pilot for a special screening.
The filmmaker is no stranger to Cannes. He earned a Best Director award for his film “Drive.” After the Cannes success with that film, he returned with both “Only God Forgives” and “The Neon Demon.” And since Refn is one of the most vocal filmmakers discussing the future of film and streaming, it’s only fitting that he’d be one of the trailblazers for TV at the notoriously picky film festival.
Again, we’ll find out exactly when/how “Too Old to Die Young” will screen at Cannes on Thursday when the line-up for the festival is finally released.