Nosferatu resonated with critics and audiences alike final Christmas and has gone on to earn over $150 million worldwide in theaters, a career-high for writer-director Robert Eggers. That won’t sound like rather a lot, however when the manufacturing funds sits round $50 million, it is a win. Now, it appears that evidently he is getting a shot at doing one other crowd-pleasing horror characteristic and has set Werwulf as his subsequent mission.
In fact, this can be a werewolf thriller, and Common’s Focus Options division is backing it. The timing is humorous, since Common and Blumhouse have simply launched one other ‘werewolf thriller’ in Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man, which sadly obtained a tepid response to this point. Whereas Eggers is definitely doing his personal factor once more with this pitch, the upcoming film marks yet one more push from the manufacturing and distribution firm into the realm of classical monsters after the MCU-like Darkish Universe crashed and burned earlier than it even took off.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the information, immediately taking pictures down unconfirmed rumors that the filmmaker was circling a Labyrinth remake (a minimum of for now). The mission is being fast-tracked in line with THR’s sources, with Christmas 2026 at present set as the discharge goal. This implies that Eggers had a script locked and able to go following Nosferatu’s launch; he’d teased up to now he had agency plans in place for a minimum of a few motion pictures after his newest.
Werwulf can even mark a reunion with Icelandic poet, novelist, lyricist, and screenwriter Sjón, who co-wrote The Northman with the filmmaker. The story is seemingly set in Thirteenth-century England and can (in fact) characteristic “dialogue that was true to the time interval and has translations and annotations for these uninitiated in Previous English.” Eggers goes sicko mode once more, hell yeah. His unique plans to shoot it start-to-finish in black and white have been binned although.
With a late 2026 launch window tentatively set, manufacturing ought to kick off this 12 months, in all probability within the second half, so anticipate casting information within the coming months. For now, we all know that he is wanting to work once more with Willem Dafoe once more after the veteran actor delivered three standout performances in The Lighthouse, The Northman, and Nosferatu. Will one other Skarsgård present up for this one?
