Werwulf Trailer Shows Nude Aaron Taylor-Johnson Transforming Into Wolf

Director Robert Eggers is getting again into the interval horror style with “Werwulf,” his newest film after his hit 2024 creature characteristic “Nosferatu.” A primary have a look at the Thirteenth-century werewolf story was proven throughout Universal and Focus Features’ presentation at CinemaConthe annual conference for movie show house owners that is underway in Las Vegas. “Werwulf” hits theaters on Dec. 25, precisely two years after “Nosferatu.” Eggers penned the script along with his “The Northman” co-writer Sjon.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Lily-Rose Depp are reteaming with Eggers after they starred in “Nosferatu,” as are Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson. The movie’s logline teases, “In 13th-century England, a mysterious creature stalks a foggy countryside as local folklore becomes a terrifying reality for the villagers.” Taylor-Johnson stars because the titular lycanthrope, and the solid additionally contains Jack Morris, Jan Bijvoet, Ritchi Edwards and Bodhi Rae Breathnach.

The trailer echoed Eggers’ previous motion pictures, with loads of black-and-white photographs of mauled corpses, desecrated graves and frightened townsfolk terrorized by an unseen beast. A unadorned Taylor-Johnson convulses and transforms into the werewolf, with spit filling his fanged mouth, however his full monstrous look wasn’t proven. After breaking out in “Nosferatu,” Depp is again and cements her standing as a screaming queen with a number of painful shrieks in “Werwulf.”

Universal’s traditional monster motion pictures have had some ups and downs up to now few years. Last 12 months’s “Wolf Man,” directed by Leigh Whannell and starring Chris Abbott and Julia Garner, solely made $35 million on the field workplace and acquired blended opinions. Before that, the vampire motion pictures “Abigail” (2024) and “Renfield” (2023) have been additionally so-so. The 2020 thriller “The Invisible Man,” starring Elisabeth Moss, launched proper earlier than theaters shuttered as a result of COVID-19 pandemic however ended up turning into successful. It grossed $144 million off of a $7 million price range.

Eggers has established himself as a horror auteur, first coming onto the scene with 2015’s “The Witch,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Ineson. He adopted that up with “The Lighthouse,” a two-hander with Robert Pattinson and Dafoe, then took on interval motion with “The Northman,” led by Alexander Skarsgard.