Dafoe has become the director’s muse of late, having previously appeared in his past three films: The Lighthouse, The Northman and Nosferatu. The two are also looking to work together on a new retelling of A Christmas Carol at Warner Bros. that has Eggers directing and Dafoe in early talks to star.

Willem Dafoe might be joining forces with Robert Eggers once again for another period horror film, this time in the form of Werwulf.

In “Nosferatu,” Taylor-Johnson played Friedrich Harding, a wealthy shipbuilder who does not heed Thomas and Ellen Hutter’s warnings that their German town has fallen under the curse of the vampire Count Orlok until it is too late.