Miles Teller will play the lead role of Martin, a police officer entangled in the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles. Refn wrote the project with Ed Brubaker, the prolific comic author (Captain America, The Fade In), with Refn on board to direct the entire series.
Die Young tells of a grieving police officer who, along with the man who shot his partner, finds himself in an underworld filled with working-class hit men, Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins sent from Mexico, Russian mafia captains and gangs of teen killers. Amazon, which made the casting announcement on Monday, says the series will follow "killers’ existential journeys in becoming samurai."