En una entrevista en The Dissolve:

The Dissolve: How is this film particularly relevant to your work now?
Refn: I just finished shooting The Neon Demon, and it only has woman protagonists. The standing joke is that it’s another Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. We would joke a lot about how part two is going to be Beyond The Neon Demon. By the way, Valley Of The Dolls is another great movie. Very much my kind of movie.