The Witch (watch it HERE) and The Lighthouse (watch that one HERE) director Robert Eggers’ latest film The Northman, a Viking revenge tale, is set to reach theatres on April 22nd, and in anticipation of that release a new poster has now been unveiled. The poster, which sports the tagline “Conquer Your Fate”, can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Scripted by Eggers and Icelandic poetic / novelist Sjón, The Northman has only been described as
“a Viking revenge saga set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century” that will show “how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father.”
The film reunites Eggers with his The Witch stars Ralph Ineson and Anya Taylor-Joy. Also in the cast are Alexander Skarsgård (The Stand), Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos), Björk (Dancer in the Dark), Ethan Hawke (Sinister), Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider’s Web), Olwen Fouéré (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), and Willem Dafoe, who Eggers previously worked with on The Lighthouse.
We do know that the story was inspired by the Scandinavian legends that William Shakespeare’s Hamlet was based on. Skarsgård is playing Amleth, who was the direct inspiration for the character Prince Hamlet.
The Northman was produced by Lars Knudsen, with New Regency providing the financing.
Saying he was blown away by the footage he has seen from the movie, Ineson described the following moment:
Alexander Skarsgård looks like an absolute beast. [There’s] a scene where he beats this guy in a battle; bends down and rips his throat out with his teeth, screams to the gods and he’s got his shirt off – and you think: ‘My god that’s not a bodybuilder doing a scene, that’s like a proper serious actor!’ He’s made himself look like some kind of monster for the part, the dedication’s incredible.”
You can read an interview we conducted with Eggers at THIS LINK.
The Northman has been rated R for “strong bloody violence, some sexual content and nudity”, and you can check out the new poster below.