Robert Eggers Has His Next Movie and It’s Not Something You’d Ever Guess
Director Robert Eggers has confirmed that his next film will be an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The project is set to be produced by Focus Features following a competitive bidding war against other major studios. The adaptation is expected to feature actors speaking in Old English and has a reported budget in the high seventies millions.
- ▪Robert Eggers will direct a new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet after the release of his film Werwulf.
- ▪Focus Features secured the distribution rights for the project after outbidding A24, Sony, and Warner Bros.
- ▪Sources indicate the film will feature dialogue in Old English to match Eggers' meticulous historical approach.
- ▪The total deal for the production is estimated to be in the high-seventy millions, including talent and production fees.
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Johnny Depp can rest easy for the moment; it looks like his Ebenezer Scrooge movie won’t have Robert Eggers’ proposed A Christmas Carol as competition anytime soon. As you might guess, though, the busy Eggers has a different project commanding his attention. Once Werwulf hits theaters this Christmas, he’ll move straight into a take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. If that news is surprising, there have been previous signs. In 2022, a New Yorker profile of Eggers circa The Northman mentioned that he was then in the middle of researching and writing “something Elizabethan.” He reiterated that a few weeks later in a GQ interview but also cautioned, “I’ve written all kinds of things that haven’t gotten made.” So you’d be forgiven if you forgot about his admittance of playing a lot of “Tudor…
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