Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #47. Robert Eggers – The Light House

Published on November 21, 2018

Robert Pattinson recently admitted that filming on The Light House was “the closest I’ve come to punching a director“. Not exactly Kinski-Herzog in nature, but we nonetheless hope that whatever torturous methods Robert Eggers employs in the creative process will be extended into post production phase. Logistically, his shot on B&W 35mm (alongside The Witch DP Jarin Blaschke) film may stand a better chance at connecting with auds that are more arthouse like in nature. While Eggers is synonymous with the notion of a director who broke out in Park City, the filmmaker and an A24 outfitter might prefer a Cannes showing for this sophomore film and precious extra hours working on the sound design. Production began in April in Nova Scotia with Pattinson teaming with Willem Dafoe. This is a Sundance longshot.

Gist: Written by Max and Robert Eggers, this is described as a dark fantasy horror film, this is set in 1890

Production Co./Producers: Youree Henley (The Beguiled), RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira and Lourenço Sant’ Anna (Ad Astra), Parts & Labor’s Jay Van Hoy (The Witch)

Prediction: Outside chance at a Premieres showing.

U.S. Distributor: A24

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).