Ryan Gosling Will Continue to Be Super Violent, Super Silent

There was apparently a mystery presentation at this week's Cannes Festival that involved a small preview of Only God Forgives, the upcoming collaboration between Ryan Gosling and his Drive director, Nicholas Winding Refn. If you liked Drive, it sounds like there's some good news for you — Only God Forgives continues Gosling's ultraviolet turn. If you didn't like Drive, well, you're just wrong. It was awesome.

From Ain't It Cool News:

There’s not a whole lot to the footage, honestly. The camera finds a room in what now seems to be a club of some sort, possibly a high-end strip club. Two Thai men in white suits sit laughing on a long couch in one corner, Gosling sits in another staring at a nervous looking girl holding a microphone. She’s not singing or looking like she’s about to sing, just standing there looking sad and lost in her thoughts.  

Gosling stands abruptly, walks calmly over to the two Thai men having a good time and proceeds to smash one of the men’s drinks into this face, shattering the glass against his teeth.  

Punches are thrown, Gosling dominating the fight, which continues out into the hall where Gosling grabs the hurt man by THE MOUTH (he’s lying on the floor, gasping in pain and Gosling just goes ahead and sticks his hand into the dude’s mouth and drags him down the hall by his upper jaw) and throws him out of the building. 

The man’s friend kicks Gosling from behind, they brawl and Gosling ends up not only beating them both, he decides that’s not enough and removes his belt and starts a-whippin’.

I'm not sure when it happened, but Gosling has now fully transitioned from the guy you cast in The Notebook to a gritty antihero. Once again, though, the Academy will probably ignore everything awesome the guy does, just like they refused to acknowledge Drive, The Ides of March and Crazy, Stupid, Love last year.

Only God Forgives doesn't have a release date yet, but you can't keep something this badass away from the world for so long.