After “Nosferatu”, Robert Eggers will now make a werewolf movie — here's what we know

Celebrated modern horror filmmaker Robert Eggers will be moving from vampires to werewolves with his next movie.

The director is still riding high on the success of Nosferatu, Eggers' reimagining of the 1922 black-and-white silent film classic, loosely based on the Dracula legend. And now he's re-teaming with Focus Features, which released Nosferatu on Christmas, to direct Werwulf, set for theaters on Christmas Day 2026.

There aren't a lot of details on Werwulf currently, but here's what we do know...

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Eggers, who previously delivered indie hits like The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), co-wrote Werwulf with Sjón, the screenwriter he worked with on The Northman (2022). The Hollywood Reporter was the first to break the news, revealing the story is set in 13th-century England. The script apparently also features period-accurate dialogue with translations and annotations for those uninitiated to Old English.

Nosferatu, featuring Bill Skarsgård in a particularly unrecognizable prosthetics-enhanced performance as the vampire Count Orlok, found a lot of success in releasing directly on Christmas Day last month. The film made more than $90 million domestically and more than $156 million worldwide to date. Nosferatu is now available to purchase or rent through digital retailers, with a physical home release set for February.

Over the course of promoting Nosferatu with various press interviews, Eggers mentioned to IndieWire that he was considering multiple projects as his next effort, including medieval film The Knight and a Rasputin miniseries. "I have five things going on, because you never know what’s going to work, what’s going to appeal to people, what’s going to be greenlit," he commented.

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Casting has not been revealed as of yet, but there are a number of frequent collaborators Eggers likes to work with, such as Willem Dafoe, the lead actor who appeared the most across the filmmaker's repertoire to date. Anya Taylor-Joy is another recurring actor, while Eggers also seems to be collecting Skarsgårds like Infinity Stones.

If you're hungering for a werewolf movie before 2026, though, The Wolf Man, from The Invisible Man filmmaker Leigh Whannell, is currently playing in theaters with a digital release looming in the near future.

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