Dozens of viking extras, nonstop rain, and a village full of animals — what could go wrong? TheNorthman's director, cinematographer, and more break down the hardest days on set. kn8 reports
Robert Eggers, Alexander Skarsgård, scriptwriter Sjón, production designer Craig Lathrop, advisor Neil Price, visual effects supervisor Angela Barson, and stunt coordinator CC Smiff, break down the toughest moments of shooting.
The solution was found in the recording booth. Eggers and Sjón realized they could write new dialogue that led the audience deeper into Amleth’s psyche, and have the actors ADR it in. A simple enough task, except for the fact that the new words would have to match the lip movements of the old words exactly, while also staying true to medieval parlance. Sjón called it “the toughest crossword puzzle you can imagine.
The Northman, partially shot in Northern Ireland, would be a daunting feat of production design: two villages, an Icelandic farm, three temples, a cave. “We built everything,” Lathrop said. “Including most of the set decoration, from the chairs, to a tapestry, to a nine-foot solid-wood idol.” A man in the Czech Republic constructed working Viking longships.
The Day We Decided What Viking Tables Looked Like “There’s always this gap between what we all want, and what we can do.” Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features Everything that the production designers built had to live up to Eggers’s rigorous historical standards. Aiding in this task was Professor Neil Price, archeology chair at Uppsala University, one of multiple historical advisors to the film.
The Day We Battled the Tides Anya Taylor-Joy as Olga. Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features Robert Eggers did not grow up a Viking fanboy. They were a little too macho for a kid who loved history and the theater, and as he got older, the “right-wing misappropriation of Viking culture” was an added turnoff. But on a trip to Iceland in 2016, he became fascinated by the landscape. That led him to the sagas, and those led him to making The Northman.
If that sounds suspiciously close to a complaint, know that it’s not. “You can’t make this movie in L.A.,” Eggers said. He pointed to the opening of 1958’s The Vikings. Director Dean Fleischer and his crew traveled all the way to the Norwegian fjords, only to encounter sunny Scandinavian skies. “They might as well have shot it in California,” Eggers said. “For us, we needed that misery.”
The raid begins with the berserkers running towards the village wall, then climbing over it. It was clear that the next bit — where Skarsgård knocks a dude off a horse in midair, then keeps fighting— couldn’t be filmed in a single take. They needed to find a stitch point. But where? Here’s how they did it: After Skarsgård landed, the camera pulled in on his legs as he stomped on his adversary.
Step one of the Knattleikr scene was coming up with the rules. The teams were made up of a mix of actors and stuntmen, and all of them needed somewhere to go and something to do. Precious little information exists about the game, but the version in the Northman is a mix of field hockey and rugby. As originally envisioned, a player needed to be on the ball to be hit. “That got boring, so we just started smashing everybody,” Smiff said.
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