{"id":71040,"date":"2025-07-17T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71040\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:31:12","slug":"robert-eggers-eyes-nosferatu-gang-for-werwulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71040\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Eggers eyes Nosferatu gang for Werwulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where there are vampires, you can bet werewolves won\u2019t be far behind. It\u2019s a fact known to every fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/twilight-15th-anniversary-roundtable-1851032657\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twilight<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/vampires-make-for-bad-roomies-in-the-kiwi-mock-doc-what-1798182707\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What We Do In The Shadows<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-utter-insanity-of-true-blood-15-years-on-hbo-1850809560\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">True Blood<\/a> or\u2026 well, you get it. It appears Robert Eggers isn\u2019t one to break tradition. Having already cast all three actors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/nosferatu-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nosferatu<\/a>, the director is now eyeing Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp to join Aaron Taylor-Johnson in his upcoming feature Werwulf, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/07\/willem-dafoe-robert-eggers-werwulf-1236461040\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline reports<\/a>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/werwulf-aaron-taylor-johnson-lily-rose-depp-robert-eggers-1236461570\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety previously confirmed<\/a> Taylor-Johnson as the star of the film.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A director returning to a familiar rolodex of actors is nothing new (fellow horror auteur Mike Flanagan is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/summer-howell-carrie-mike-flanagan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">especially guilty of it<\/a>), but casting almost an entire call sheet for a feature that isn\u2019t being advertised as a sequel or continuation is a little goofy. Still, Eggers did have good luck with the trio in Nosferatu, which went on to bank $182 million at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt5040012\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international box office<\/a>. Besides, at this point, it would almost feel weird to watch an Eggers picture that didn\u2019t feature Dafoe. In addition to Nosferatu, the actor previously starred in both The Lighthouse and The Northman. The two are reportedly also in talks to collaborate on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/robert-eggers-christmas-carol-willem-dafoe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adaptation of A Christmas Carol<\/a> for Warner Bros. (Between all of this and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/robert-eggers-labyrinth-sequel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labyrinth sequel<\/a>, someone please tell Eggers that it\u2019s ok to take a teeny tiny break every once in a while.)<\/p>\n<p>Eggers also had high praise for Depp after her chilling turn as Ellen Hutter in the 2024 feature. \u201cAs soon as I met her, it was clear [that she was his star],\u201d Eggers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/nosferatu-director-robert-eggers-said-he-knew-lily-rose-depp-was-his-star-as-soon-as-i-met-her-130052628.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Yahoo Entertainment<\/a> last year. \u201cThen she auditioned, and it was every bit as powerful as I expected and just as raw and ferocious as you see on the screen. I\u2019m so proud of what she accomplished in this film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No word on whether other Nosferatu alumni like Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd or Nicholas Hoult are circling roles in the wolf pack, but it seems they\u2019d also be familiar with the tone of the film. Like past Eggers projects, Werwulf will be set in 13th century England and feature Old English dialogue (similar to The Witch), with \u201ctranslations and annotations\u201d for the uninitiated, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/robert-eggers-direct-13th-century-werewolf-thriller-werwulf-1236114172\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. It\u2019s also \u201cthe darkest thing [Eggers has] ever written. By far,\u201d as he claimed at a panel earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/werwulf-robert-eggers-dark\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per Collider<\/a>. It\u2019s a good thing Dafoe, Depp, and Taylor-Johnson have already succumbed to the darkness; now, they just need to contend with the full moon. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"articles grid-margin-x flex-container flex-dir-column\">\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/robert-eggers-christmas-carol-willem-dafoe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b class=\"title\">Robert Eggers adds Christmas Carol movie to his very packed schedule<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/robert-eggers-cellphones-cars-contemporary-film\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b class=\"title\">Robert Eggers sickened by the idea of photographing cars, cellphones\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where there are vampires, you can bet werewolves won\u2019t be far behind. It\u2019s a fact known to every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-71040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114870949230608516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}