Overview
- Multiple outlets reported on Tuesday that Focus Features won a multi-studio bidding war for Eggers’ adaptation and that the package is in the high-seventies million dollars.
- The deal has not been finalized, but sources say Eggers is expected to both direct and produce and that the film is intended to follow the release of Werwulf.
- Reporting says the adaptation will use an unconventional linguistic approach with actors speaking in Olde English, a choice outlets noted is historically unusual for a play written in the 1590s.
- The project would reunite Eggers with the specialty arm that released Nosferatu and is distributing Werwulf, and it represents a notable genre shift from his recent vampire and werewolf films.
- Key next items to watch are formal contract completion, casting and a production timeline after Werwulf’s release, since those steps will determine how the studio’s reported investment moves into active production.