International NSFW 'Drive' Trailer Has New Footage, Old Plot Reveals

I think Nicolas Winding Refn's film Drive, starring Ryan Gosling as a stuntman/getaway driver who is pulled into a difficult situation through his attraction to his next-door neighbor (Carey Mulligan), is pretty great. (Bryan Cranston, pictured above, plays a supporting role; I wanted to give him some header image attention.) I'd love to have a trailer to show you that is the great key to selling audiences on the movie without showing too much.

We don't have that trailer yet. This new one is French, and it's a lot like the previous US trailer until the end, when some new footage crops up, along with a few quick shots of naked people. But because the plot of Drive is relatively... let's say 'contained'... there's only so much a trailer can build on without showing quite a bit of that plot. So, NSFW warning and possible spoiler warnings taken into account, check out this new trailer if you're ready.

More than anything else, I love where Kavinsky's song 'Nightcall' kicks in toward the end — that's the film's title credits tune, and I think it works great in context with any footage from the film. I linked the full track here. In the meantime, as I've said before, probably the best look at the film remains this first clip, which is from the very beginning of the film.

Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can't help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac). After a heist intended to pay off Standard's protection money spins unpredictably out of control, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals (Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman). But when he realizes that the gangsters are after more than the bag of cash in his trunk-that they're coming straight for Irene and her son-Driver is forced to shift gears and go on offense.

FilmDistrict will release Drive on September 16. [ComingSoon]