After placing his personal spin on one of the well-known vampire tales of all time, horror’s largest historical past nerd is about to go even additional into the annals of the previous: The Hollywood Reporter has simply revealed that Robert Eggers’ subsequent challenge goes to be set within the thirteenth century, and is due out round Christmas 2026. Naturally, this one will probably be about werewolves.
The film is about to be known as “Werwulf,” and along with directing it, “Nosferatu” and “The Witch” filmmaker Eggers can be co-writing the script with Sjón, the Icelandic poet, creator, and screenwriter who helped pen “The Northman” in 2022. Regardless of exploring a extra monochromatic shade palette with final yr’s “Nosferatu,” THR stories that Eggers has determined to shoot the upcoming movie in shade after initially planning a black-and-white shoot. He additionally seems to be getting again to his deeply geeky historically-informed roots, because the outlet’s supply says the England-set monster thriller will use period-specific dialogue and have an uncommon visible selection: annotations and translations for Outdated English phrases.
Robert Eggers’ Werwulf will probably be set in England within the Center Ages
It is price noting that individuals within the time interval in query truly spoke Center English, although it is unclear whether or not the supply misspoke on that time (the 2 are generally confused). Regardless, it is thrilling to listen to that the hyper-disciplined and detail-oriented filmmaker goes to get into the weeds linguistically, as Eggers’ first three motion pictures (A24’s “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse” and Focus Options’ “The Northman”) used singularly sensible (and difficult) dialogue, whereas his most up-to-date movie opted to make all of its German characters converse pretty fashionable English. Eggers will probably be re-teaming with Focus Options once more this time round, marking the third collaboration between the director and the division of Common Studios. Eleanor and Chris Columbus are set to government produce the movie alongside Eggers and Sjón.
Eggers’ newest movie, “Nosferatu,” has confirmed extra profitable than anticipated with mainstream audiences, having raked in $156 million and counting within the weeks since its late December launch. The film, which stars Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and Invoice Skarsgard, is a moody remake of F.W. Murnau’s famed “Dracula” ripoff. It is divided critics barely (it at present holds an 84% Rotten Tomatoes rating), however impressed a number of members of the /Movie crew, together with critic Chris Evangelista. He known as the film “concurrently scary, horny, unusual, and unhappy” in his assessment, giving it a 9 out of 10 rating.
Casting and full plot particulars for “Werwulf” are nonetheless to come back. The film is about to hit theaters on December 25, 2026.