Robert Eggers’ THE LIGHTHOUSE Shooting on 35mm Black and White Film Stock
Mike Sprague
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Louise Ford is an award-winning movie editor who has worked on some of our beloved genre’s most recent hits such as Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe and Robert Eggers’ The Witch. And it looks like Ford is reteaming with Eggers for his new film, which sounds very interesting.
It’s called The Lighthouse and stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. But more interesting still is it looks like the film will be shot on 35mm black and white film stock.
“I’m currently on location in Nova Scotia, Canada, cutting Robert Eggers’ second film, The Lighthouse, which stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson,” Ford told Mandy. “It’s set in 1890, and we’re shooting on 35mm black and white stock, virtually unheard of nowadays. Most black and white movies are shot in colour and then converted to black and white in post. The dailies look beautiful; it’s very exciting.”
This may not seem like huge news to the everyday horror fan, but for those of us out there that consider themselves “filmmakers who just do this shit as a day job” then you’ll get why this is so exciting. We’re basically the same group of people who get excited when we find out Christopher Nolan is shooting his new movie with IMAX cameras and shifting aspect ratios.
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