Nicolas Winding Refn Talks VALHALLA RISING Sequel set in Tokyo

Before Nicolas Winding Refn directed films such as Drive and Only God Forgives he made a few other great films that include Bronson and a Viking film called Valhalla Rising. The movie got mixed reviews, but I thought it was a great film, and the fact that Refn is thinking about making a sequel is surprising and extremely cool!  

The first film was set on 1000 AD and centered on a one-eyed mute imprisoned warrior played by Mads Mikkelsen. He ends up breaking out of prison, and with the help of a young slave boy they board a Viking ship and end up in an unknown land. 

While promoting his latest film Only God Forgives, Winding Refn talked to the The Playlist about the sequel he's thinking about making,

He revealed that project was a re-teaming with “Valhalla Rising” star Mads Mikkelsen, saying they had, “talked about revisiting the [One-Eye] character from ‘Valhalla Rising’ again to kind of complete… because there’s a similarity between ‘Valhalla Rising,’ ‘Drive’ and ‘Only God Forgives.’ But in a way I had this idea of Mads Mikklesen to go back to the origins of this character. But make the movie in Tokyo.”

When asked how this could be a sequel, Refn cryptically said, “Tokyo is a world onto itself.” This didn’t seem to clear up exactly how One Eye could emerge from the early Viking era to modern day Tokyo, so when pressed, Refn teased that the film was, “About the future…”

There's a lot of cryptic information here, but I'm sure whatever he's got cooking up in his brain is going to turn out awesome. I hope he gets around to making this sequel. What do you think about the possibility of a Valhalla Rising sequel.