Overview
- Focus Features and Esquire released the first official image and a studio logline on June 25, launching the film’s formal marketing campaign.
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as a nameless, cursed 13th-century farmer and is joined by Lily-Rose Depp as his wife and Willem Dafoe as a hunter.
- Eggers says the film discards standard werewolf tropes such as bite-based contagion and silver bullets and instead builds a medieval-rooted mythology drawn from trial accounts.
- Production used Middle English dialogue developed with Oxford scholars, built period sets from scratch, shot on 35mm film and applied an orthochromatic treatment to create a gritty, archaic look.
- Werwulf is slated to open in theaters on December 25, 2026, and its reception and box-office will be watched closely given Eggers’ recent Nosferatu success and the film’s deliberate theatrical-first presentation.