{"id":517863,"date":"2026-06-30T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517863\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:04:08","slug":"robert-eggers-werewulf-trailer-unleashes-aaron-taylor-johnson-in-a-medieval-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517863\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Eggers’ \u201cWerewulf\u201d Trailer Unleashes Aaron Taylor-Johnson in a Medieval Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writer\/director Robert Eggers<\/a> has carved out a killer niche for himself. He has become one of the modern masters of historic horror, creating an oeuvre that has spanned the unforgiving, haunted wilderness of 17th-century New England (2015\u2019s The Witch),\u00a0 the blasted madness that grips two lighthouse keepers on an island off of 19th-century New England (2019\u2019s The Lighthouse<\/a>), the bloody trials of a 10th-century Viking prince (2022\u2019s The Northmen<\/a>), and his creeping, crawling takek on one of the most iconic Gothic tales of them all (2025\u2019s Nosferatu<\/a>). Now Eggers has set his sights on medieval Britain, taking us into the foggy countryside where a beast has been terrifying villagers. Who else would you want behind Werewulf? <\/p>\n

The first trailer for Eggers\u2019 latest introduces us to another story of a family trying to survive in the wild, ungoverned world, in this case in 13th-century England. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as a husband and father who seems to be cursed with an affliction that he cannot control. There\u2019s a brief shot toward the end of the trailer that shows Taylor-Johnson\u2019s character frothing at the mouth as he becomes the titular beast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taylor-Johnson is joined by Eggers\u2019 favorites like Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, and Lily-Rose Depp. Eggers has also reteamed with many of his longtime collaborators, including cinematographer Jarin Blaschke<\/a>, editor Louise Ford, and production designer Craig Lathrop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out the trailer below.\u00a0Werewulf\u00a0stalks into theaters on Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Featured image: Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Man in director Robert Eggers\u2019 WERWULF, a FOCUS FEATURES release.. Credit: Rory Mulvey \/ \u00a9 2026 FOCUS FEATURES LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writer\/director Robert Eggers has carved out a killer niche for himself. He has become one of the modern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,1149,85,46,133627],"class_list":["post-517863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-focus-features","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-werwulf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}