Willem Dafoe said he is going to reunite with The Lighthouse and Nosferatu director Robert Eggers on his next film.

“He’s giving me material that excites me and turns me on,” said Dafoe during his 90-minute masterclass session at Sarajevo Film Festival.

The actor did not specify what the film will be. Eggers is writing and directing an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ghost story A Christmas Carol for Warner Bros, with Dafoe attached to star as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Dafoe spoke glowingly of Eggers in his Sarajevo session, mentioning the director’s well-known love of period detail but adding that “he really avoids showing off the research.

“The research creates an engagement, a relationship to the material,” said Dafoe.

The sold-out session attracted the most excitable audience of this

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