Robert Eggers to take on Werwulf in next project

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Following Nosferatu, director Robert Eggers will focus on another supernatural creature in Werwulf, due out in 2026.


Robert Eggersā€™ Nosferatu is still playing in UK cinemas and earning strong reviews. Despite releasing on the 1st January, it will likely cast its long shadow over the rest of the year, much like its terrifying vampire does in the film. Eggers has built his filmography off the back of reinterpreting folklore and myths, and in news that will surely delight fans of his films, heā€™s set to take on perhaps the most cursed creature of them all: the werewolf.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the film has a title ā€“ Werwulf ā€“ and that Eggers has already co-written the screenplay with Sjón, his co-writer on 2021ā€™s bloody viking revenge drama, The Northman. Although details are scarce at this point, the report does state that weā€™ll be visiting 13th Century England with a script whose dialogue is true to the time period (another Eggers signature from The Witch onwards).

Donā€™t worry if you donā€™t have time to brush up on your Old English, though, as Werwulf will reportedly feature ā€˜translations and annotationsā€™ to guide audiences through the squabbles, politicking and conversations about the weather that presumably were the hallmark of conversations in Late Middle Ages England.

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According to the report, the filmmaker was set on filming the project entirely in black and white at one point, but has since reversed course on that decision.

Nosferatu has been successful commercially as well as an artistically, picking up $156m so far at the global box office and adding to the balance sheet of Focus Features, Universal’s art house division. Thereā€™s also the probability that the film will be a strong VOD performer, just as The Northman notably was.

As such, Focus will be backing Werwulf too. Eggersā€™ gothic vampire tale felt like a small step towards a broader storytelling canvas, and in interviews, the filmmaker has noted that the involvement of Chris Columbus as a hands-on producer was invaluable to him, especially in this area. The director of family favourites such as Home Alone and Harry Potter And The Philosopherā€™s Stone will be returning to produce Werewulf too.

Weā€™ll bring you more on Werwulf as we hear it.

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