![]() Standard’s character played by Oscar Issac in the film is also different from the novel. The minute Mulligan walked into Refn's house to meet him, Refn looked at Carey and said, “you’re it!”Ĭarey Mulligan was hired on the spot. Carey Mulligan was cast in the film despite not being a Latina because Refn saw in her the innocence he wanted Driver to see in Irene. In the book, Irene is an extroverted Latina woman, while Irene in the film has a more grounded energy that draws Driver in.Ĩ. The character of Irene is more pivotal to Driver’s arc in the film than in the novel. ![]() The film also made a few changes from the novel to suit Refn’s hyper-realist style. In the book, we learn Driver’s father was a burglar, that he watched his mom murder his dad in a fit of rage, and that he was sent to a foster home only to steal his foster parents’ car at 16 and run away. The film removes even more detail from the already-slim novel, especially when it comes to the backstory of Ryan Gosling’s Driver. Refn decided to stay true to the novel and rewrote the script with Amini with a more simplistic structure and minimalist dialogue. Drive didn’t adapt well to high-stakes action, and so the film never got made until Refn entered the scene.ġ0. This proved to be a challenge for screenwriter Hossein Amini since the novel is a hundred-page existential ride written in a non-linear structure. Universal Studios bought the book years earlier but wanted to adapt it into a franchise like Fast And Furious. The script of Drive is based on the novel of the same name written by James Sallis. The film removes even more detail from the already-slim novel. That became the structure and tone of Drive, much like a fairytale, the structure of Drive consists of a good guy (a knight or a prince or a driver), an innocent woman in need of protection, and a bad guy (a wicked king or an evil witch). Refn started reading the Grimm fairy tales to his daughter, he noticed that although the tales were oversimplified, they were still complex minimalistic but emotionally precise. The basic DNA of Drive is inspired from the fairytales of The Grimm Brothers. He turned to Gosling, and screamed- “We’re going to make a movie about a man who drives around in a car, listening to pop music because that is his emotional release!” and Gosling just turned towards Refn and said, “I’m in.”ġ2. The thought of leaving his family behind in Copenhagen just after having a second child, and pursuing a movie Ford wasn’t interested in, he suddenly had an epiphany. In 2011, Gosling told NYTimes, “I’m stuck with him for another hour driving out to Santa Monica, and he won’t talk to me so I turn on the radio to quiet the silence and REO Speedwagon’s ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’ comes on.” Euphoric and high from the medication, Refn turned the volume up and started to sing along, and started to cry. Feeling too cheap to get a taxi, he asked a reluctant Gosling to drive him back to the hotel after their meeting. Refn, the director of Drive, cannot drive in real life and failed his driving exam eight times. Eddy LEMAISTRE/Corbis Entertainment/Getty Imagesġ3. Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes 2011. He was too attached to the idea of cinematically murdering Ford (even though Ford wasn’t sold on the idea). While Ryan tried to make conversation, Refn seemed disinterested on account of being ill. Refn and Gosling both describe the meeting as dry and disappointing. Strung out on heavy flu medication and barely able to drag himself out of his bed, Refn arrived 20 minutes late. On this same visit to Hollywood, a meeting was arranged with Ryan Gosling at a restaurant. Ford, who picked him up from the airport, took him to the pharmacy.ġ4. However, on his way to Los Angeles, he caught the flu. Excited about the thought of being a Scandinavian director who comes to Hollywood and murders Ford, Refn agreed to direct the film. Attached to the project at the time was Harrison Ford (later replaced by Nicolas Cage), who’s character wasn’t going to survive to the end of this film. Nicolas Winding Refn, who is best known for his Pusher trilogy, actually came to Hollywood for a different movie called Dying of the Light. Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan in Drive.
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