Agree, very tired of the "floating bodies grouped together in the sky" poster motif. Feels so lazy by the marketing team. But the movie's gonna rule so whatever.
Kinda funny seeing the latest film by one of the brightest young auteurs having a poster that looks like one of the 100 forgettable sword-and-sandals movies that popped up in the post-Gladiator/LOTR decade. (But I mean, also -- crush my skull and spear me in the heart Alexander Skarsgard).
They need an action-y poster to grab the casual audience. If my dad was scrolling Netflix and saw that he would probably watch it.
I’m sure the Styles tidbit got most of the buzz, but there’s a great ~25 minute New Yorker longread on Eggers and The Northman right there that Styles is merely a throwaway sentence in. Highly recommended read—no spoilers for Northman outside of character names and detail for some actors along with historical references they used. Loved this from Ethan Hawke: “It’s almost like being with people that saw a movie two years ago, and they’re trying to remember it,” Hawke said, of his experience on “The Northman.” He told me that, when he was younger, he might have bristled at Eggers and Blaschke’s methods, but now he admires their exactitude. “So much of moviemaking is people trying to sell you something,” Hawke said. “I’ve spent my life wondering, Will I ever get to be on a set that feels like ‘Apocalypse Now’? You know, like, somebody’s trying. They have the balls, and the hubris and the arrogance to say, ‘I want to make a masterpiece. I’m going to write a movie about Vikings with an Icelandic poet. And shoot it in a way that a film has never been choreographed before.’ So, for me, just seeing somebody take a swing like that, you know, it’s like a jump off a high dive.”