Up next, The Witch and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers is set to direct The Northman, a viking revenge film that we first heard about back in October of last year.
Deadline told us, “The pic is described as a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century. Eggers penned the screenplay with Icelandic poet and novelist, Sjón.”
According to the site at the time, the cast of actors in talks to star includes Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Skarsgård and Willem Dafoe.
The Northman will re-team Eggers with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Jarin Blaschke (The Lighthouse), and Blaschke recently teased the film in a chat with Screen Daily.
He told the site, “It’s a bigger movie than the others. I can say it’s a Viking revenge movie and we are shooting in Europe. It’s dark and unusually violent.”
“I think [Eggers] feels a responsibility to do a trilogy,” Blaschke also noted, suggesting that The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman will form a spiritual trilogy of sorts. And that checks out, as Eggers had said something very similar to us last year. He explained, “[The Witch and The Lighthouse] are me trying to commune with folk culture of my past and are me and my brother’s take on New England folk tales. So they’re certainly companion pieces.”
More as we learn it.
