THE LIGHTHOUSE Director Robert Eggers Talks About the Massive Scale of His Viking Revenge Film THE NORTHMAN
Director Robert Eggers has made a couple of great films already with The Witch and The Lighthouse. These films are spectacular and insanely detailed. His next film is a Viking revenge story titled The Northman, and this is going to be his biggest and most epic movie yet.
During a recent interview via IndieWire, the filmmaker opened up about the film’s production in Irleand saying:
“There’s a very small crew that is continuing to work on things. Armor makers are working on armor for the characters. Prosthetics are being made. I’m doing my work with the DP [Jarin Blaschke] and the storyboard artist. There are things that need to be happening. Our location manager is constantly checking in on the locations, some of which are just now semi-built sets.”
The director then went on to tease the massive scale of the production and how the prep for this film is different than the others that he’s made:
“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. 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 and we’re continuing to do that now on this hiatus.”
The movie is set up at New Regency, and Eggers has put together an impressive ensemble cast for the film which consists of Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, and Anya Taylor-Joy.
Eggers has made two incredible films so far, and I can’t wait to see how this next one of his turns out.