Robert Eggers entered his monster era with Nosferatu, and he’s not looking back.

Fresh off the Christmas Day release of his gothy retelling of the vampire classic, Eggers is now setting his sights on werewolves. His next project is Werwulf (yes, that’s the proper Old English spelling), and according to a new report from Nexus Point News, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Lily-Rose Depp are in talks to lead the cast.

While nothing is officially confirmed, sources close to the production told Nexus that both actors are attached, and if that pans out, Eggers is cooking up something tasty.

Scheduled for release on December 25, 2026, Werwulf promises to be a grim holiday tale rooted in 13th-century England, where superstition, religion and animal terror run deep.

Details are still tight, but the project is co-written by Eggers and Sjón (his collaborator on The Northman) and will reportedly be performed in period-authentic Old English, with translations. If you’re familiar with The Witch or The Northman, you already know what kind of immersive madness that entails. We’re talking hand-copied manuscripts, haunted stone villages and lycanthropy as moral rot.

If this sounds like the anti-Underworld, you’re on the right track.

While the casting hasn’t been officially confirmed, it makes sense. Both actors recently worked with Eggers on Nosferatu and left their marks.

Lily-Rose Depp played Ellen Hutter with eerie grace, walking a tightrope between devotion and doom. She was a gothic damsel and a vessel, trembling with spiritual dread. It was one of her most mature performances to date, and it wouldn’t be surprising if Eggers wrote her Werwulf character with that same internal fire in mind.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s role in Nosferatu was smaller but potent. Friedrich Harding, an aristocratic realist undone by the impossible. Rumor has it that in Werwulf, he’ll play the central cursed figure: the man slowly transforming into the titular beast. Depp would play his wife, anchoring the emotional core of the story as she witnesses his unraveling.

If that pairing holds, we’re looking at a dynamic that’s more Possession than Twilight and all the better for it.

Eggers isn’t stopping at vampires and werewolves. Word has it he’s already set his sights on A Christmas Carol for 2027, with none other than Willem Dafoe stepping into the Scrooge role. That’s right—after giving us ghosts, ghouls, witches, and beasts, Eggers is going full Dickens.

But don’t expect jolly redemption arcs or Muppet cameos. With Dafoe’s sunken eyes and Eggers’ dread-fueled storytelling, Scrooge might be the bleakest Christmas Carol ever made. Frankly? Can’t wait.

Eggers doesn’t dabble in horror; he excavates it. He roots it in time, culture, theology, and shame. If The Witch was about repression, and The Lighthouse about madness, and Nosferatu about decay, Werwulf might be about spiritual and physical transformation. What happens when the monster isn’t outside the house, but inside the husband?

That’s the version of werewolf horror we haven’t really seen—one that ditches the silver bullets and fog machines and digs into the brutal implications of becoming something you can’t explain.

So yes, the casting isn’t locked in yet. But if the sources are right and Eggers is indeed bringing Depp and Taylor-Johnson back into the fold, we could be looking at another mythic, gut-deep masterpiece in the making.

Christmas 2026 can’t come soon enough.