Robert Eggers Writing and Directing Rasputin Miniseries
John Squires
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Watching The Witch, it’s almost hard to believe that you’re watching a filmmaker’s debut feature, which makes what Robert Eggers pulled off with that film all the more special. It’s one of the best horror movies in years, and fresh off its box office success, Eggers takes his talents to the small screen.
Deadline reports that Media Rights Capital has set The Witch director to write and direct a six- to eight-episode miniseries telling the fascinating life (and death) story of Rasputin, the so-called “Mad Monk” who infamously survived being stabbed, shot, strangled, and shot again all in one night, before finally drowning when thrown into the icy Neva River.
Rasputin was the Russian mystic who became an advisor to the Russian Imperial family, the Romanovs. Embraced by Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra as a healer for their only son, Tsarevich Alexei (who secretly suffered from hemophilia), Rasputin’s influence with the family in all matters grew to the point that rivals tried several times to kill him, finally succeeding in 1916.
The miniseries will cover Rasputin’s origins in Siberia to his rise to power and bloody death in St. Petersburg.
Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen’s Parts and Labor will produce the project.
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