FilmmakerRobert Eggers’ terrifying horror filmThe Witchwas one of the most exciting directorial debuts in recent memory, so it’s with great excitement that the first details have started to surface about Eggers’ next project. RT Features and A24 Films announced that they will be teaming up on Eggers’ new movieThe Lighthouse, which is described as a fantasy horror film set in the world of old sea-faring myths. But that’s not the most exciting part—Robert PattinsonandWillem Dafoewill co-star in the new movie!
Details on their characters are under wraps, but Pattinson and Dafoe are the perfect fit for Eggers as they arealsotwo of the most exciting performers working today. AfterTwilight, Pattinson chose to work with interesting directors on ambitious indies likeThe RoverandCosmopolis, and he had a brilliant 2017 with the one-two punch ofThe Lost City of ZandGood Time. And now he’s leading a mythic lighthouse-centric fantasy horror film. What a world.
Dafoe, meanwhile, is a mainstay in fascinating projects, and is coming off the best performance of his career in the indieThe Florida Project. One imagines he too will be a swell fit for whatever Eggers and co-writerMax Eggershave cooked up.
Production is poised to begin this spring, and while Eggers is also developing aNosferaturemake, it looks likeThe Lighthouseis going first. Indeed,The Tracking Boardadds that Pattinson nearly starred inNosferatu, but that didn’t work out.
WithThe Witch, Eggers showed a tremendous hold of atmosphere and tension from a filmmaking standpoint, complete with phenomenal cinematography and production design, so I can’t wait to see him apply those talents to an ocean-set fantasy horror film calledThe Lighthouse. Bring it on.
