We’ve Seen 20 Gory Minutes From Robert Eggers’ ‘Werwulf’
When Robert Eggers sent the script for his new movie, Werwulf, to his cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, Blaschke texted back, “Does this take place in hell? But after seeing footage from the film, you understand the confusion. “I think some Medievalists would be annoyed that I’m kind of clinging to the stereotype of the Middle Ages being like so muddy and dirty and rainy and miserable,” Eggers said at an event in Los Angeles last week.
- ▪When Robert Eggers sent the script for his new movie, Werwulf, to his cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, Blaschke texted back, “Does this take place in hell?
- ▪But after seeing footage from the film, you understand the confusion.
- ▪“I think some Medievalists would be annoyed that I’m kind of clinging to the stereotype of the Middle Ages being like so muddy and dirty and rainy and miserable,” Eggers said at an event in Los Angeles last week.
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When Robert Eggers sent the script for his new movie, Werwulf, to his cinematographer Jarin Blaschke, Blaschke texted back, “Does this take place in hell? Is this hell?” The answer, obviously, is no. But after seeing footage from the film, you understand the confusion. “I think some Medievalists would be annoyed that I’m kind of clinging to the stereotype of the Middle Ages being like so muddy and dirty and rainy and miserable,” Eggers said at an event in Los Angeles last week. “But like, it needs to be so muddy and rainy and dirty and miserable and shit-covered. It does need to be hell.” After the success of his 2024 gothic monster movie, Nosferatu, Eggers gave himself a challenge. “I kind of said, ‘Let me try to write the scariest thing I can write,'” he said.
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