The cast is an electrifying mix of old friends (Anya Taylor-Joy, Kate Dickie and Ralph Ineson from The Witch, plus Willem Dafoe from The Lighthouse) and starry newbies (Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Björk), and all of them braved the testing conditions without complaint. “But you’re not going to have a Viking saga without sword fights and a Viking raid and all that kind of stuff.” “There are certainly some sequences that you can see that I cut my teeth on horror films,” he says. It’s Eggers’ biggest production to date, and he promises it will satisfy both fans of his first two movies and cinemagoers seeking a larger spectacle.
Not at all.”įor Amleth, brutality is undoubtedly the answer, and The Northman, shot in harsh landscapes battered by fierce winds, looks set to be as unforgiving as it is thrilling. But he’s not, like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, deliberating about whether or not violence is the answer. “The trope of wanting to take time in your revenge to torment the person is honoured here. "Simply put, it’s Viking Hamlet,” writer-director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) tells Total Film of The Northman, a raw-boned thriller that sees Alexander Skarsgård’s prince Amleth pursue vengeance for his murdered father. Tatum has been doing his bit to whip up interest on his Insta account, posting a pic of his torso without much on it, and saying he was shooting a scene that required him to be ‘asshole naked’. Directed by Aaron and Adam Nee, who made the 2015 dark comedy Band Of Robbers and were attached to Masters Of The Universe until The Lost City got up and running first, this makes for an interesting proposition given it’s a return to the kind of romcom adventures they made in the ’80s and ’90s but not any more.Ĭould it be the new Romancing The Stone, with its jungle setting and attractive leads in peril? And is star power these days enough to propel a vehicle not based on existing IP? Well, Brad Pitt will also pop up in the action, so that’s certainly the plan. He plays the cover model of a book written by Sandra Bullock’s reclusive romance novelist, and he joins her on a promotional tour only for Daniel Radcliffe, of all people, to launch a kidnapping attempt. Ryan Reynolds was originally circling this action-adventure yarn, but a deal couldn’t be struck and in stepped Channing Tatum instead.
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