Robert Eggers’ New THE NORTHMAN with Anya Taylor-Joy Snags Its Big Screen Release Date
Mike Sprague
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The Witch and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers’ Viking revenge epic The Northman has wrapped shooting. And today, we hear it will hit theaters on April 8, 2022.
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Sounds good!
Co-star Ralph Ineson teases Alexander Skarsgard (The Stand) is “an absolute beast” who rips throats out with his teeth.
He tells NME: “Alexander Skarsgård looks like an absolute beast. [There’s] a scene where he beats this guy in a battle; bends down and rips his throat out with his teeth, screams to the gods and he’s got his shirt off – and you think: ‘My god that’s not a bodybuilder doing a scene, that’s like a proper serious actor!’ He’s made himself look like some kind of monster for the part, the dedication’s incredible.”
Plot details are scarce. But we know The Northman takes place in the 10th century. It follows a Nordic prince (Skarsgard) seeking revenge after his father is murdered. Co-written with Icelandic poet/novelist Sjón, The Northman does not have an official release date but filming recently started near the eastern coast of Ireland.
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Ineson recently called the flick “enormous” and “a masterpiece,” saying: “It’s an enormous movie. I saw a four-minute montage of some of the stuff they’d shot and I was really blown away. The marriage of Rob Eggers’ imagination and Viking folklore. I think it will be a bit of a masterpiece, to be honest. If I was to put bets on any film being an absolute banger, it would be that one.”
Skarsgård’s The Northman co-stars are Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch), Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse), Nicole Kidman (The Others), Ethan Hawke (The Purge), and Björk.
Taylor-Joy says: “[Robert Eggers and I] have now been friends longer than we have been co-workers. Getting the opportunity to create art together again is amazing. We have both grown so much apart and now we get to grow back together. I‘m so proud to be a part of this project… we will be presenting to the world something it genuinely hasn’t seen before. I just feel so humbled I get to be a part of it.”
Kidman also spoke about her deep commitment to Eggers’ vision: “I’m heading off to do that in November. I’m deeply committed to filmmakers that I call auteurs. They’re so powerful in their visions and their abilities. I made that pledge when I was about 14 years old, that I would travel the world and work with different nationalities in different countries and different genres with different stories. That’s my calling.”
She adds: “So, to have been asked to do it is a privilege. A lot of the things, as an actor, you’ve gotta be asked to do them. It’s Robert Eggers’ story and his vision. I hopefully bring something to the equation but I’m there to … contribute.”
Focus Features will release The Northman domestically. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally. Lars Knudsen and Mark Huffam produced. The Northman will hit theaters on April 8, 2022.
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