Overview
- Focus Features released the first official trailer on Monday, June 29, and it opens with villagers burning accused werewolves before culminating with Aaron Taylor-Johnson beginning a harrowing transformation.
- The cast includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson and the project credits Robert Eggers and Sjón as writers with Chris and Eleanor Columbus listed as executive producers.
- Eggers and cinematographer Jarin Blaschke say the film was shot on 35mm and treated with an orthochromatic post process to desaturate skin tones and add a black-and-white-like grain for a textured, ‘wrecked’ look.
- The director emphasizes practical performance work and old folklore over modern werewolf clichés, calling the script his darkest to date and rejecting bite-contagion and silver-bullet tropes in favor of mystery and period belief systems.
- Focus staged the rollout with leaked art, a CinemaCon footage showing and Monday’s trailer as part of a push toward a theatrical release on December 25, 2026 that builds on Eggers’ recent holiday-box-office momentum.