Hoooooooooowl do you follow up a moody gothic vampire movie that breaks out big at the box office? If you're Robert Eggers, you embrace the two wolves inside you.
Eggers, whose Nosferatu has grossed nearly $156 million worldwide after debuting in last year's not-usually-macabre Christmas window, will reportedly follow up his vampire redux with another straight-faced horror movie: Werewulf, based on an original script penned by Eggers and his The Northman co-writer Sjón. The Hollywood Reporter's scoop suggests the movie takes place in 13th-century England and is steeped in period-appropriate dialogue. Fans of Eggers' films The Witch and The Lighthouse know the filmmaker is a folklore obsessive who lives for the details, so yes, this all tracks. (There were also plans to shoot the film in black-and-white, similar to The Lighthouse, but that's no longer in the cards.)