Robert Eggers’ Dark & Violent Viking Revenge Saga Sounds F*cking Massive
Mike Sprague
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The Witch and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers’ new nightmare The Northman has already snagged a killer cast including the likes of Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse) and Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) with Nicole Kidman and Alexander and Bill Skarsgard.
And today, Eggers talked a bit about how massive the movie is.
He tells Collider: “There’s many locations in the film, so we were constantly going on scouts to find places or reassess places that we have found and we’re building sets there. We’re designing all these worlds, building these villages, we’re making thousands of costumes and props, training the horses the things they’ll need to do, designing the shots of the films.
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He continues: “There’s a lot more storyboarding. Generally I only storyboard the scenes that have visual effects or animals and stunts, things where all the departments need to be on the same page for it to work out. But this movie there is rarely a scene that isn’t on a boat or doesn’t have a lot of extras. We’re storyboarding most of the film, which is taking a lot of time.”
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Written by Eggers with Icelandic poet and novelist, Sjon, The Northman is described as a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century. This film is being produced by Lars Knudsen who was also behind Eggers’ The Witch and Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar.
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