The Northman

[Stringer]

These reshoots worry me. Could be standard helpful stuff but I read a lot of negative test screening reactions, so I hope he’s not forced to compromise. A lot of the criticisms were to do with Skarsgard being one note and unlikable and the film dragging.

Well that's a bunch of "buyer beware" going on with that.

 

[Deck Rickard]

That’s every Eggers film though. I can’t imagine regular joes and janes walking in To The Lighthouse liking it very much.

Remember when someone tried to sue Drive because it wasn’t more like Fast and the Furious lol

Woman Sues Because ‘Drive’ Isn’t Enough Like ‘Fast and the Furious’ | TIME.com

These are the kinds of people at these test screenings sometimes lol

Hahahaha I remember this.

 

[Pennywise]

That’s every Eggers film though. I can’t imagine regular joes and janes walking in To The Lighthouse liking it very much.

Remember when someone tried to sue Drive because it wasn’t more like Fast and the Furious lol

Woman Sues Because ‘Drive’ Isn’t Enough Like ‘Fast and the Furious’ | TIME.com

These are the kinds of people at these test screenings sometimes lol

That’s the most ridiculous complaint I have heard!

 

[Kane52630]

I bet this scene was intense...

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I bet this scene was intense...

Absolutely!

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Pennywise]

Anya Taylor-Joy's got work to do — a lot of it. And the messier the better

Specifically, precisely, what Taylor-Joy wants to communicate is that her happiest place on earth is a movie set where she’s covered in grime and, with any luck, some kind of prosthetic blood, and where someone is challenging her to do something that’s physically hard so she can ignite the competitive spirit within herself and see how much she can endure. And that particular day in Iceland checked all those boxes, with the bonus of getting to swim around in the freezing North Atlantic. A very good day, indeed.

If this runs counter to the image you have of Taylor-Joy from seeing her in all those chic statement coats, turtlenecks and pleated skirts on “The Queen’s Gambit” or the perfect Regency-period costumes she wore in “Emma,” then you know her only from her work — which is all she wants to be known for at the moment, anyway. So that’s OK. But this is a young woman who likes to get dirty, so much so that when she was making the new David O. Russell movie earlier this year and she met the man who created her favorite brand of fake blood, who revealed this fact as he was applying the fake blood to her body, well, she just lost her mind. I live in your blood! It’s my favorite kind of blood! Thank you thank you thank you!

But, should you need further confirmation, Nicole Kidman, calling from her home in Australia, happily relates the first time she met Taylor-Joy, only at first she couldn’t believe it was Taylor-Joy because, having just arrived on the remote “Northman” set on top of a mountain in Northern Ireland, she saw a young woman, white as a ghost, dressed as a Viking, wearing no makeup, standing among hundreds of shivering extras.

“I thought, ‘Who’s that girl?’” Kidman remembers. “Then I take another look and, ‘Oh, that’s Anya!’ She’s in the mud, dressed in nothing, it’s freezing cold and the wind’s whipping around, and it was like meeting a kindred spirit. This is my kind of girl!”

One of her journals, the one Taylor-Joy kept while shooting the Russell movie (she’s sworn to secrecy) contains the long, red acrylic nails she wore in the film (“that sounds gross, and I don’t care,” she says). Taylor-Joy keeps a memento from every character she plays. From “The Queen’s Gambit,” she has a hat, a couple of pairs of shoes and some really great pants that she can actually get away with wearing in her day-to-day life. As she wrapped “The Northman,” Eggers gave her a sword, knighting her with it as he presented it.

“I do love beautifully crafted weapons, especially from a film set that have a meaning behind them,” Taylor-Joy says. “I was like, ‘Really? I get to keep this?’” Her next thought: Please don’t tell me I have to travel with this sword. Eggers shipped it to her London home, the one that she never sees, where it will someday be mounted on a wall. She’s OK just knowing it’s there. Meanwhile, works calls. Picking through her cold In-N-Out grilled cheese, Taylor-Joy circles back to that conversation she had with Shyamalan.

 

[Pennywise]

Universal Studios, Focus Features Showcase Stacked Slates At CinemaCon

Robert Eggers introduces a trailer for his movie, The Northman. A young boy is sworn to remember the "oath to right the wrong," in a vibrant viking world. His father calls for him to avenge him, should he ever, "fall by the enemy sword." In a snowy woods scene, his father is hit with an arrow before an invading group approaches and eventually executes him. Chaos ensues in villages, fields, and around beautiful settings as revenge is sought. It's a visceral looking viking tale.

 

[Black Narcissus]

 

[Boom]

Universal Studios, Focus Features Showcase Stacked Slates At CinemaCon

Oh ****.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Oh hell yeah!

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Black Narcissus]

 

[Pennywise]

Robert Eggers’ The Northman drops footage at CinemaCon & more from Focus - JoBlo

Focus Features was out at CinemaCon in full force, with an exclusive preview of some of their upcoming titles. The most-hyped movie they showed footage from is definitely Robert Eggers’ The Northman. A Viking epic based on the Scandanavian legend that inspired Hamlet, Alexander Skarsgård plays our Viking prince hero. His father, played by Ethan Hawke, is murdered by Claes Bang’s usurper to the throne, leading to exile for our prince and estrangement from his queen mother, played by Nicole Kidman. So he goes for bloody (and I mean bloody) revenge. Anya Taylor-Joy is his love interest.

This really looks like a great movie. Eggers adopts a different style for this from his other films. It’s in big, bold color (as opposed to the black & white of The Lighthouse), and nothing at all about this movie is muted. As a result, it simultaneously looks like his craziest and most accessible movie. Unfortunately, the footage we saw was not final, but they could release the mock-up trailer we saw in theatres tomorrow, and it would blow audiences away. It comes out in 2022.

 

[Marvolo]

Disappointed to hear this is just an older version of Hamlet. Would have liked something a bit more original from Eggers.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Disappointed to hear this is just an older version of Hamlet. Would have liked something a bit more original from Eggers.

lol, you could make this argument about any movie ever made. “Disappointed to hear this is just another version of [story that is similar]”.

 

[Deck Rickard]

“The Witch meets Braveheart.”

Inject it into my eyeballs now.

 

[Brother Jack]

I'm all in.

 

[DarkKnight88]

“The Witch meets Braveheart.”

Inject it into my eyeballs now.

 

[Gothamsknight]

“The Witch meets Braveheart.”

Inject it into my eyeballs now.

It's the best combo anybody could ask for!

 

[OutOfBoose]

It's the best combo anybody could ask for!

Unless you aren't a fan of Braveheart.

 

[Marvolo]

lol, you could make this argument about any movie ever made. “Disappointed to hear this is just another version of [story that is similar]”.

You misunderstand me. I dont expect 100% originality. I meant I wanted a story he came up with. Like The Witch. Not an adaption of pre-existing source material. I've watched Hamlet god only knows how many times from multiple directors.

 

[:eek:]

Both Hamlet and The Northman are inspired by the legend of Amleth (and Shakespeare didn't even change the name much)

Amleth - Wikipedia

 

[Boom]

He literally took the last letter and moved it to the front.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Unless you aren't a fan of Braveheart.

I’m not a big fan of Braveheart but the battle sequences are tight (even if they’re historically inaccurate as hell). I assume that great battles are all the tweet was implying.