Out of a hundred, the movie was scoring in the mid-sixties the studio wanted more like seventy-five. The first audiences for “The Northman”-a loose pre-telling of “Hamlet” (Shakespeare’s play is based on a Viking tale) involving longships, volcanoes, transcendental visions, and the singer Björk’s first cinematic role in seventeen years-reported feeling similarly flummoxed. “The studio is expecting the next cut to be different,” Eggers said.Įggers’s previous films-“The Witch” (2015) and “The Lighthouse” (2019)-were claustrophobic, visionary works that blurred the boundary between the imagined and the real. At seven that morning, he had spoken to an executive at New Regency Productions, to receive the studio’s notes on the latest cut of “The Northman,” the ninety-million-dollar Viking movie that had consumed two years of his life. Last September, the filmmaker Robert Eggers was having breakfast-grains, seeds, black coffee-at a bistro in central London.
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