Though he still has a remake of Nosferatu bubbling away in development, The Witch's director Robert Eggers has begun to put the pieces together for his next horror pic. He's cast Robert Pattinson alongside Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse.
Eggers has written the script with Max Eggers, but has so far not revealed much about the story, beyond the fact that Dafoe is playing Old, an aging lighthouse keeper. The film is set at the dawn of the 20th century and will be a fantasy horror inspired by sea-faring myths and focused on the solitary watchmen in Maine. There's no word yet on whether Pattinson will be a fellow light-wrangler or something supernatural – or both!
The cameras for this one should be rolling in the spring, and has no release date locked in yet. Pattinson has a few films on the way, including Claire Denis' High Life, Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir, and comedy drama Western Damsel, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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