Martin Scorsese is in awe of Robert Eggers.
Throughout a current Q&A with TCM’s Dave Karger (through World of Reel), Scorsese praised Eggers’ auteurism on his current movie “Nosferatu.”
“It’s wonderful,” Scorsese mentioned of the movie. “Something this man does is wonderful. That’s one movie you don’t do a lot after seeing. You’re nonetheless on this planet. You’re in Transylvania and it’s actually … Man, he’s one thing.”
Whereas Scorsese isn’t fairly identified for horror, Eggers has turn into a contemporary grasp of the style. Eggers, who beforehand helmed “The Witch,” “The Northman,” and “The Lighthouse,” introduced his fifth movie “Werwulf” in January 2025.
“Werwulf” can be a werewolf horror film set in thirteenth century England, and can see Eggers re-team with Focus Options. Eggers cowrote the script along with his “The Northman” scribe Sjón. Like “Nosferatu,” “Werwulf” can be getting a vacation launch; the movie is ready to premiere Christmas Day 2026. “Nosferatu” turned Focus Options’ second highest grossing film stateside other than “Downton Abbey,” with $90.5M in grosses.
Eggers lately mentioned throughout a “Nosferatu” Q&A that “Werwulf” can be much more terrifying than his previous movies.
“It’s the darkest factor I’ve ever written, by far,” he mentioned.
Eggers beforehand informed IndieWire that “The Northman” is the characteristic that made him really feel like he lastly might be referred to as a filmmaker.
“It was a beast, a giant studying expertise, I’ve mentioned this earlier than, after making ‘The Northman,’ I lastly felt like I understand how to direct a film, like I’m not making an attempt to persuade people who I understand how to direct a film,” he mentioned. “I’m not somebody who has a number of concepts and simply hoping that it’s going to work. That gave me the instruments to lastly really feel assured as a director, so it was good going into ‘Nosferatu’ with that feeling.”
In the meantime, cinematic icon Scorsese has a slew of initiatives within the works, most notably the long-awaited “Satan within the White Metropolis” adaptation revived at twentieth Century. Scorsese in talks to direct with frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio starring. Erik Larson’s guide, “The Satan within the White Metropolis: Homicide, Magic and Insanity on the Honest That Modified America,” tells the story of the 1893 Chicago World’s Honest, following formidable architect Daniel H. Burnham and the murders of serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes that came about in the course of the occasion.
DiCaprio acquired the rights to the guide in 2010 and was creating a movie adaptation at Paramount with Scorsese set to direct. The venture was later re-announced as a Hulu restricted sequence, with Todd Area as a substitute directing and Keanu Reeves starring. The venture, which had each Scorsese and DiCaprio nonetheless government producing, was scrapped in 2023. It has now as of January 2025 been delivered to twentieth Century.