Jarin on WERWULF: “I mean the movie is fucked, it’s fuuuucked up. This movie did not want to be tamed which is appropriate for, you know, a movie about Satan essentially.”
Rob: “People who turn into werewolves become evil, in the Christian mythology become satanic.”
Robert Eggers praises Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s performance as one of a kind: “We'll say without a doubt that it's his best performance, & the stuff that he does physically in the transformation scenes are extreme. The emotional intensity he brings to role is equally as extreme.”
Details on Robert Eggers' 'Werwulf' 🐺
• Horror film that follows a man who is cursed in a 'brutal, unforgiving, merciless, grotesque world'
• Set ~1300 AD before all the wolves were killed off in England
• Doesn't include werewolf cliches like 'being bitten by a werewolf and silver bullets'
• Willem Dafoe is playing a hunter
• They spent time with a real wolf to learn about its behavior
• Dialogue is in Middle English
• Shot on 35mm film — with grain structure of a black-and-white film incorporated onto color film to create a unique look
• All sets were built from the ground up
(via @esquire)
Robert Eggers confirms that the dialogue in ‘WERWULF’ is all 1300s Middle English.
“We worked with 2 Oxford professors on the dialogue, which is in Middle English, & then worked with a dialect coach on a way to temper the pronunciation”
(Source: https://t.co/MATt6uyU0l)
Robert Eggers says Lily-Rose Depp is “the heart” of ‘WERWULF’
“She is truly transformative. She inhabits a person that's very different from her & very different from any character she's ever played. She’s sort of the most gracious person in the film.”
Robert Eggers' ‘WERWULF’ is shot on 35mm film, with grain structure of a black & white film incorporated onto colour film to create a unique look.
(Source: https://t.co/MATt6uyU0l)