Ryan Gosling and Nicholas Winding Refn re-teaming for romantic comedy; Albert Brooks to write?

Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling can't get enough of eachother. Their film Drive has been tearing up the festival circuit the last few weeks, with Refn winning Best Director at Cannes. The story sees Gosling as a stunt driver who moonlights as a wheelman, but runs into trouble when a job goes wrong. It also stars Carey Mulligan, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks, due to hit theaters here on September 16th.  Gosling and Refn are following that up with a remake of Logan's Run, but that's not where the partnership is ending. The two revealed to the LA Times that they're set to team up yet again on something wildly different: a romantic comedy.

Gosling is making his first real jump into the genre in this summer's Crazy Stupid Love. For Refn it'll be quite the departure from everything he's done previously, which have all been very tough, violent character studies. The idea of these two taking on another flick together is cool enough, but then you throw in the fact they want legendary filmmaker/writer Albert Brooks to script, and now you're talking about a potentially epic project.

Refn: "We're doing a comedy, and Albert Brooks promised he'd write the screenplay. Well, that's not exactly true. But print it and we'll make it true."

Gosling: "We're definitely going to do a comedy, and we're trying desperately to get [Brooks] to write it."

All we know at this point is that it'd be set in New York. For Brooks, this would be the first film he's written since 2006's Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. Um, not a career highlight to say the least. He's getting some pretty strong Oscar buzz for his turn as a mobster in Drive, so let's hope he wants to jump back in the ring with Refn and Gosling at least one more time. Brooks has been busier than he has in years lately. He's set to star in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up spinoff, This is Forty.