Robert Eggers WERWULF wolf hunter
by Anjali Filmi: Robert Eggers
Robert Eggers reveals that Willem Dafoe's character in ‘WERWULF’ is based on a real life wolf hunter from 1300s England. “He did such a good job [killing wolves] that in 200 years there were not wolves in England.”
Transcript (en)
in England and because Edward I was trying to protect the wool trade around the time of this movie, he set a campaign to like exterminate all the wolves. Actually, Willem's character is based on a real person who did such a good job that like in another 200 years there were not wolves in England. So without wolves, you don't have werewolf lore. So if I was going to set it in England, and it had to be this early in history around 1300. And that was even more exciting because it was, the world would be like so primitive and so visceral and primal that that would make this like all the more dark and brutal.
