Robert Eggers Talks The Lighthouse and His Next Film The Northman

Robert Eggers Talks The Lighthouse and His Next Film The Northman With The Lighthouse now playing in theaters, I recently sat down with director Robert Eggers for an exclusive interview. As you’ve seen in the trailers, the film stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as two lighthouse keepers living on a remote New England island in the 1890s where nothing is quite as it seems. Filmed using vintage cameras and featuring period-accurate dialogue, The Lighthouse is like nothing you’ve seen and it cements Eggers place as a filmmaker to watch. Even though I’ve seen countless films, I’ve never seen anything like The Lighthouse. Definitely recommended. During my interview with Eggers, he talked about why he loves making the audience feel like they’re in another time and place, if it was tough to use the vintage cameras and lenses, whether the financers had any issues with them, why he doesn’t shoot a lot of coverage, his first cut versus the finished film, and more. In addition, with Eggers next film rumored to b