Thank You Robert Eggers, We Want More: 20 Gothic Film Adaptations and Remakes We're Begging Robert Eggers to Direct

01
Beowulf

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Eggers has proven already with The Northman that he is quite adept at adapting old Scandinavian legends. Beowulf would be right up his alley.
02
The Seventh Seal

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Unlike Nosferatu, Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal isn't based off of a book or tale. Perhaps Eggers wouldn't feel comfortable doing a remake of a completely original visual work (especially one so revered), but it would be amazing if he did…
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

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Plenty of amazing movies have been inspired by The Divine Comedy, but there hasn't really been a super successful film adaptation of the epic just yet.
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The Phantom of the Opera

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Robert Eggers hasn't directed a musical before, but his films do have a theatrical feel to them already.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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Another classic, silent horror film. Would he be able to do the graphic style any justice? I think so.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Out of every possibility I've named in this list, this is the one I am the most serious about. Ben Barnes is my childhood crush – and perhaps my adulthood crush – but that 2009 movie left a sour taste in my mouth.
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The Fall of Icarus

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If there's on thing Robert Eggers does well, it's nailing the illogical story beats and dream logic of old mythologies. We've seen his take on Scandinavia, early America, and 18th century America and Europe, but let's see what he does with a little Hellenization.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

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Tim Burton already did it, and it was iconic. But it wasn't scary, it wasn't horrifying. It didn't capture how freaky American myths and legends can be.
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The Mummy (2001)

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Ok, ok. I'm not sure that Eggers could do an action-comedy, and even if he could, nothing would come close to this amazing 2000s classic that was really just an excuse to have hot people on screen. However, he should do a movie where archaeologists unleash a terrible ancient curse.
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Faust

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There's plenty of retellings of the legend of Faust to choose from, or he could develop his own…
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Paradise Lost by John Milton

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Much like The Divine Comedy, no one has made a film adaptation of John Milton's epic, Biblical fanfiction. Many believe that it is impossible to convincingly bring the cosmos to screen without some heavy CGI use. However, Paradise Lost is an allegory, and Robert Eggers does well in this realm.
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The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

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Picture this: Mia Goth and Robert Pattinson as the leads in a gothic retelling of this children's book/movie.
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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I have complete, unwavering faith that Robert Eggers would be able to do these Victorian-era gothic novels justice.
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Orpheus and Eurdydice

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I think I just want Robert Eggers to lead me to the underworld in one way or another…
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

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Robert Eggers, please, we want to see bugs! The people want bugs! Giant bugs!!!
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

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The most famous adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is lamentably the animated Disney movie aimed at kids. While it is one of Disney's best films, it merely hints at the darker elements of the original story. Frollo does have an amazing musical number that gets the point across in the most child-friendly way possible, but Robert Eggers would make sure we all know how badly the priest desires to “live deliciously."
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco's monk mystery novel has already been adapted twice on the big screen. Although I love Sean Connery and baby Christian Slater, the first adaptation was certainly missing something. The second version of the film didn't quite deliver, either, but perhaps our Egg friend could…
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The Call of Cthulu by H.P. Lovecraft

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Robert Eggers has already played around a bit with Lovecraftian ideas in The Lighthouse, but could he take it all the way with an adaptation of The Call of Cthulu? Or is that more Guillermo del Toro territory?
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The Black Cauldron

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Not many people got to see this horrifying Disney movie as a child; it simply wasn't very popular. For some reason, I had it recorded on a bootleg VHS. Halfway through the end credits, it would switch to a recording of the Peter Pan (1954) musical.
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The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe

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He's already made a short film of The Tell Tale Heart. I firmy believe Mr. Egg Man should try his hand at another one of Edgar Allen Poe's works.