The Danish director, known for his shocking visuals and extreme approach to storytelling, is an interesting choice to reboot Enid Blyton’s classic kids' adventure tale.
will be a modern, timely and irreverent action series with adventure at its heart,” said Will Gould, co-founder of Moonage Pictures, announcing the project.
Given Refn’s reputation as a boundary-pushing auteur with a penchant for extreme visuals and sometimes OTT violence he is, depending on your take, either an inspired or insane choice to take on, a horror-thriller set in the world of high fashion. He comes off back-to-back TV series — for Netflix — both violent neo-noir thrillers.promises to be a radical departure for the cult director and his first-ever family-friendly project.
“All my life I’ve fought vigorously to remain a child with a lust for adventure,” Refn said in a statement. “By reimagining, I am preserving that notion by bringing these iconic stories to life for a progressive new audience, instilling the undefinable allure and enchantment of childhood for current and future generations to come.”
Sarah Muller, senior head of children’s commissioning 7+, and BBC commissioning editor Amy Buscombe commissioned
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