A brutal hockey-like sport played to the death. Berzerkers dancing and screaming 'til dawn pre-raid. Shallow, stealthy longboats. Though the narrative may be the stuff of legend, the Viking Age detail in The Northman is rooted in history, and writer-director Robert Eggers took pains to get it as close to the real deal as possible.The Northman is the bloody Nordic tale of Prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) on his fate-determined quest to avenge the murder of his father, King Aurvandil War-Raven
Only the man who made a movie with Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe and a mermaid in a lighthouse could’ve made “The Northman.” Inspired by the Norwegian
Robert Eggers’ last two movies, The Witch and The Lighthouse, were set in New England. His latest film, The Northman, goes even farther north to Viking country, and it’s everything you’d expect in a movie about Vikings. It’s a giant slab of raw meat. It’s the sort of movie made to inspire whole albums of heavy metal
The actress, 26, was the picture of elegance in a white Dior gown and a Tiffany collar as she reunited with her co-star Willem DaFoe at Mother Wolf in Los Angeles on Monday night.