By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Get a further taste of Robert Eggers (THE WITCH, THE LIGHTHOUSE) going epic.
Focus Features brings THE NORTHMAN, directed by Eggers from a script he wrote with novelist Sjón, to theaters April 22. Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Ethan Hawke, Björk and Willem Dafoe star. The story follows Viking prince Amleth (Skarsgård), who witnesses the murder of his father, King Aurvandil (Hawke), and the abduction of his mother, Queen Gudrun (Kidman), by his treacherous uncle Fjolnir (Bang) as a child. Years later, he seeks out Fjolnir to wreak his revenge.