I highly recommend watching Robert Eggers’ Konbini visit to the JM video store in Paris. A small little nugget can be found at the 17-minute mark; Eggers reveals that last week he offered Willem Dafoe roles in his next two movies.
What those two movies might be remains a mystery. Eggers recently confirmed that he has “five things” going that could potentially turn in his next one. We publicly know of four things that Eggers is currently working on: “Labyrinth,” “The Knight,” an untitled Western and his Rasputin miniseries.
Dafoe has acted in Eggers’ last three films: “The Lighthouse,” “The Northman,” and “Nosferatu.” During the Konbini chat, Eggers mentions how it was Dafoe who first reached out to him in 2015, after having seen “The Witch.” A few days later, they had dinner together, and the rest as they say is history.