By Jack Giroux/March 29, 2017 10:00 am EST
Below, learn more about the Nicolas Winding Refn amazon series.
In addition to Teller’s casting, The Hollywood Reporter has some new details on the series and the actor’s role. Teller is playing a mourning cop, Martin, whose partner was murdered. Somehow, Martin and the man who killed his partner are pulled into a world of Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins, the Russian mob, and even gangs of teenage killers.
When Too Old to Die Young was first reported it was said that Refn was courting several big name stars for the role of Martin. While Teller isn’t a movie star (yet), he is a good actor, one whose studio gigs (War Dogs, Divergent, Fantastic Four, That Awkward Moment, and 21 and Over) don’t tend to turn out as well as his excellent dramas (The Spectacular Now and Rabbit Hole). A few of those aforementioned studio films also didn’t provide him with particularly good material to work with, but considering the talent behind it, we shouldn’t expect that problem from Too Old to Die Young.
We’ll next see Teller this year in Granite Mountain and Thank You for Your Service. As for Refn, he’s also developing his Tokyo-set thriller, The Avenging Silence, another crime story involving the Yakuza. “Ian Fleming + William Burroughs + N W R” is how the filmmaker summed up the movie in a tweet.
