Ryan Gosling wants Albert Brooks for new comedy

Ryan Gosling has revealed that he is planning to team up with Drive director Nicholas Winding Refn on a new romantic comedy.

The new project, which has no script attached yet, will be set in New York, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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

The Blue Valentine star added that setting it in the US city "seemed like a great place to start".

Brooks makes a rare acting appearance in the critically lauded film Drive as a murderous gangster, after doing voice work on Finding Nemo and The Simpsons Movie.

The comedian-turned-actor helmed the controversial 2006 documentary Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.

Watch an extended clip of Drive below: