The article also attributes interest in directing a Doctor Who film to Refn, without listing when he’d attempted to direct the series.
A new interview with Metro UK saw the prior Drive director listing his interest in Doctor Who, despite having seen little of the newer series; his favorite incarnation of the Time Lord noted as Tom Baker.
In the meantime, We’ll have more Doctor Who this coming Christmas, ahead of a new companion in 2017.
It’s starting to seem as if The Neon Demon director Nicolas Winding Refn makes more headlines for the projects he doesn’t do, like Spectre or a potential Batgirl movie, and it seems we can add Doctor Who to the pile.