Ryan Gosling really wants to shake that pretty-boy reputation.
In the trailer for "Only God Forgives," his second collaboration with "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn, he braces for a serious beating. From the looks of a promo image (left), he gets one.
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Gosling stars as an exiled son of a crime lord, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, who runs a Thai boxing club, a front for a drug business. After his brother is killed by a retired cop, who calls himself The Angel of Vengeance, Gosling is ordered to seek revenge. It ends up costing him dearly.
No release date has been set for the film.
Watch the teaser trailer: