Nicolas Winding Refn is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Refn at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Refn promoting Drive at the Deauville American Film Festival in September 2011
Refn at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
Bronson is a 2008 British biographical black comedy prison film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, based on a script written by Refn and Brock Norman Brock. The film stars Tom Hardy as Michael Peterson, known from 1987 as Charles Bronson. The film follows the life of this prisoner, considered Britain's most violent criminal, who has been responsible for a dozen or so cases of hostage taking while incarcerated. He was given the name Charles Bronson by his fight promoter, for his bare-knuckle fighting years.
UK theatrical release poster
Hardy and director Nicolas Winding Refn promoting Bronson in 2009