Having just released his Viking epic “The Northman,” this past weekend (read our review) director Robert Eggers is now giving some brief insight into where his future projects could be going while reiterating his desire to avoid another big studio project as his next movie.
During a new interview with GQ Magazine, Eggers confirmed that he’s indeed working on a project in the Elizabethan era but was scarce on details and whether there will be an added genre element going on.
“Well, The New Yorker said I was writing something Elizabethan,” said Eggers, “so there you go. But I’ve written all kinds of things that haven’t gotten made. And I’ll write a lot more that will and won’t get made. I mean, every time period interests me except for the one we’re living in.”
“My wife is really, really sick and tired of Tudor and Stuart music playing in the house. I’ll say that,” Eggers added.
His last three films have been period projects and don’t expect Eggers to be making films with a contemporary setting anytime soon. He’s also rejected the idea of ever wanting to make something for Marvel Studios.
“If I was making a contemporary film, what am I supposed to do with myself? Obsess over wallpaper swatches, until my eyes fall out?” said Eggers, “It’s just not interesting. For whatever reason, it just does not inspire me. And you can’t shoot something that doesn’t inspire you.”
When asked if he’ll make an indie next, the filmmaker suggested he’s keen on making something smaller that will allow him to have more creative control.
“Right now, I definitely want to do something smaller, where it won’t be as painful, or I’ll have full control. There’s always give and take and studio notes. There always is. There was on ‘The Witch.’ I didn’t have this much gray hair when we wrapped photography. It’s all from post-production.”
He was also asked about potentially working with Nicolas Cage after the actor recently named Eggers as a director he wants to work with in the future during a Reddit AMA session.
“He has so much modernity about him that it would be an interesting challenge to see what period that I could find my way into making Nicolas Cage be utterly believable in,” the director told Insider.
What that Elizabethan idea could be is up in the air but it’s yet another exciting setting that can be fleshed out by taking historical cues while building original stories around it and would certainly allow for Anya Taylor-Joy to take yet another role. We know that Eggers has been trying to put together a remake of the 1922 silent vampire film “Nosferatu“ but has had trouble getting the horror flick made despite prepping the film in Prague.
“The Northman” is currently in theaters and is very much worth checking out on the big screen.
