The Northman (Robert Eggers, April 8, 2022) Movie • Page 7

dope

 

Nicccce

 

It’s honestly about fucking time. I’ve been asking for that for years.

 

Finally molten magma and molten man meat can share the silver screen.

 

i’m imagining Anakin v Obiwan from ROTS but naked

 

glad they're sticking true to the source material of Hamlet and The Lion King

 

I'd give anything

 

I’m weirdly always imagining this

 

Crazy this is coming out in four weeks.

 

MacGruber would be so proud

 

amazing no notes

 

Terrible poster

 

Agree, very tired of the "floating bodies grouped together in the sky" poster motif. Feels so lazy by the marketing team. But the movie's gonna rule so whatever.

 

Kinda funny seeing the latest film by one of the brightest young auteurs having a poster that looks like one of the 100 forgettable sword-and-sandals movies that popped up in the post-Gladiator/LOTR decade. (But I mean, also -- crush my skull and spear me in the heart Alexander Skarsgard).

 

They need an action-y poster to grab the casual audience. If my dad was scrolling Netflix and saw that he would probably watch it.

 

made-for-tv-lookin-ass poster, i love it

 

I saw X in theaters last night and this was the poster outside for The Northman. Definitely better.

 

How does Skarsgard have 57 abdominals?

 

He’s 6 10

 

lol

 

I’m sure the Styles tidbit got most of the buzz, but there’s a great ~25 minute New Yorker longread on Eggers and The Northman right there that Styles is merely a throwaway sentence in.

Highly recommended read—no spoilers for Northman outside of character names and detail for some actors along with historical references they used.

Loved this from Ethan Hawke:

“It’s almost like being with people that saw a movie two years ago, and they’re trying to remember it,” Hawke said, of his experience on “The Northman.” He told me that, when he was younger, he might have bristled at Eggers and Blaschke’s methods, but now he admires their exactitude. “So much of moviemaking is people trying to sell you something,” Hawke said. “I’ve spent my life wondering, Will I ever get to be on a set that feels like ‘Apocalypse Now’? You know, like, somebody’s trying. They have the balls, and the hubris and the arrogance to say, ‘I want to make a masterpiece. I’m going to write a movie about Vikings with an Icelandic poet. And shoot it in a way that a film has never been choreographed before.’ So, for me, just seeing somebody take a swing like that, you know, it’s like a jump off a high dive.”

 

Just learned this does hit a theatre near me until 4/17 sad face

 

This has a $90M budget. Huge leap for Eggers.