Keeping It Light
SCI-FACT! Willem Dafoe produced some of his character’s farts for real. But, says Eggers, “He can’t burp on command”.
ARGUABLY THE MOST ORIGINAL MOVIE of the past year, Robert Eggers’s startling new film The Lighthouse began with a one-sentence idea. “My brother said, ‘A ghost story in a lighthouse’,” explains the writer-director. “I immediately saw the atmosphere and I thought, ‘This movie is going to work. I know this movie is going to work.’”
The idea was first became reality. But his research only took him so far. “By the time started picking up steam again, I really only had 30 pages of notes, 10 pages of a screenplay and a smattering of scenes and ideas,” he recalls.
