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Robert Eggers Scripts Collection: Screenplays Download

Robert Houston Eggers is an American filmmaker and production designer. He is best known for writing and directing the historical horror films The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), as well as directing and co-writing the historical fiction epic film The Northman (2022). His films are noted for their folkloric elements, as well as his efforts to ensure historical authenticity.

Eggers began his career as a designer and director of theatre productions in New York before transitioning to working in film. In 2015, Eggers made his directorial debut with horror film The Witch, based on his own script and starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2015. A24 acquired the film, and released it theatrically on February 19, 2016. Critical reception was largely positive, and the film earned over $40 million against a budget of $4 million.

His follow-up film, the horror fantasy The Lighthouse (2019), also a period piece, was critically acclaimed. Eggers directed the film, and co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, Max Eggers, and it stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe.

In 2022, Eggers’s Amleth-inspired Viking epic film The Northman was released, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe.

Below are all the screenplays available online. If you find any of his missing screenplays please leave the link in the comment section.

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(NOTE: For educational and research purposes only).

THE WITCH (2015)

Directed and Screenplay by Robert Eggers – Read the Screenplay!

THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019)

Directed and Screenplay by Robert Eggers – Read the Screenplay!

THE NORTHMAN (2022)

Directed and Screenplay by David O. Russel – WILL POST ONCE AVAILABLE!

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