Drive director Nicholas Winding Refn is reuniting with leading man Ryan Gosling for another dark tale, this time about a boxer and drug smuggler looking to exact vengeance for the murder of his brother. Taking place in the seedy Bangkok underworld, Only God Forgives looks like it could be even more disturbing than the duo’s previous pairing. Check out the red-band trailer below.
Only God Forgives opens on July 19, 2013.
Julian (Ryan Gosling) lives in exile in Bangkok where he runs a Thai boxing club as a front for the family’s drugs smuggling operation. When Julian’s brother Billy is killed their mother, Jenna (Kristen Scott Thomas), arrives in the city. She wants revenge and forces Julian to find the killer. Julian’s contacts in the criminal underworld lead him directly to The Angel of Vengeance, a retired police officer who knows everything and who is both Judge and Punisher. Jenna demands that Julian kill The Angel of Vengeance, an act that will cost him dearly.
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