Eggers has a penchant for sowing doubt into his films as if we are watching them inside the character’s heads as they start to lose their grip on reality. For sure, The Northman can be expected to have the same mind-boggling aspects everyone has come to know from Eggers’ films.Other big names involved in the film are Ethan Hawke as King Horwendil and The Lighthouse’s Willem Dafoe as Heimir the Fool. Claes Bang (BBC’s Dracula) will play the film’s primary antagonist Fjolnir. Other names in the film include Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie, both of whom starred in The Witch, and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, whose most notable role was as The Mountain in Game of Thrones. Finally, musician and actor Björk will also have a role as the Slav Queen. Whether her part will be big, small, or significant is unknown.
So where exactly is the excuse going to come from for bringing Batman back for his sixth incarnation in three decades? It can’t just be that nobody could possibly be as bad in the cape and cowl as Ben Affleck, surely? A look at the latest trailer certainly suggests Dano’s Riddler will bear little resemblance to Jim Carrey’s irritating emerald-suited puzzler-poser. But will the challenge he presents to Bruce LSU Tigers vs. Kansas State Live Wayne really be so different from the anarchic, unhinged threat of Heath Ledger’s Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight? We’ve already witnessed Catwoman in two Batman live action movies, 1992’s Batman Returns and 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, so how will Zoë Kravitz’s differ? She certainly has more feline-related japes up her sleeve than the relatively reserved Anne Hathaway in Nolan’s film, but are wisecracks about having nine lives really so different to Michelle Pfeiffer’s PVC-coated, pun-wielding turn all those years ago?
After two masterful hits in The Witch and The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers’ next film was inevitably going to be a big topic of conversation. Little is known about the film, but perhaps some interesting hints can be gathered by looking back into the film’s apparent source; the tale of Amleth.It was an extremely collaborative process — in all the ways, in terms of the character and how she looked and what she was wearing,” Kravitz said when discussing how the outfit creation process came about. “Our costume designer came to New York a week after I got the part to meet me and measure me and start the conversation about Catwoman. Matt [Reeves] is an extremely collaborative filmmaker who likes to get to know the person playing the character, so I didn’t have to fight for anything — it was designed that way.”