Ryan Gosling’s Drive Looks Even Better As An 8-Bit Video Game
This should be the Turbo Outrun of a new generation. Unfortunately, you can't actually play it.
Drive, Ryan Gosling’s 2011 sleeper hit with Danish director, Nicholas Winding Refn, featured what were perhaps the best opening credits since Orson Welles’ Touch Of Evil. Okay, maybe that’s a ludicrous exaggeration, but it was definitely better than the rest of the movie, which fell headfirst into a mess of psychotic cartoon-ish violence and sadly not-as-much quiet driving to slinky Italo disco.
Perhaps acknowledging its front-heavy charms, some clever nerd has made an 8-bit video game teaser based around the film. We’re calling it a teaser ’cause the video features a flashing “Press Start” display that is completely unclickable, because, well, there’s no actual game to play. Geez, can’t Kickstarter do something about this?
Gosling and Winding Refn have been hard at work on their much-anticipated follow-up, Only God Forgives, which sees Gosling playing a drug-smuggler in Bangkok’s criminal underworld who uses his secret Muay Thai skills to go all revenge-y after his brother gets murdered (in other words, expect a lot more of these kinda images). Here’s a new behind-the-scenes video from the shoot that shows the guys hard at work, and by “hard at work” we mean philosophically blabbing about violence and sex, smirking a lot, being topless, and wearing sarongs.