{"id":1519039,"date":"2026-06-29T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=83a595ce20ab292bb91eaa8ccc40669d"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:40:22","slug":"aaron-taylor-johnson-willem-dafoe-star-in-werwulf-official-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1519039","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe star in &#8216;Werwulf&#8217; official trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/dbc1db32a217a8fc570222e2dbbdef9a.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Man in director Robert Eggers\u2019 'Werwulf.' (Rory Mulvey)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The official trailer for Robert Eggers' <em>Werwulf<\/em> has arrived.<\/p><p>Focus Features released the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cmjpadVj-Vk\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first trailer<\/a> for the upcoming film on Monday.<\/p><p>Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as a character called Man, while Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe also make up the film's cast. All three actors previously worked with Eggers in his film <em>Nosferatu<\/em>.<\/p><p><em>Werwulf<\/em>'s logline reads, \"In 13th-century England, a mysterious creature stalks a foggy countryside as local folklore becomes a terrifying reality for the villagers.\"<\/p><p>The film is described as Eggers' \"most visceral and haunting experience yet\" and \"a harrowing tale of devotion, damnation, and the devil within,\" according to its official tagline.<\/p><p>The trailer features haunting imagery of a young boy going through a ceremony that leads to a transformation.<\/p><p>\"Do not dread the darkness. Embrace it,\" the young boy is told.<\/p><p>Later, when the young boy has grown into Taylor-Johnson, we see Dafoe's character speak to him and his family.<\/p><p>\"I've heard of a raving beast that ravished this country,\" he says. Taylor-Johnson's wife, played by Depp, then says, \"Keep my husband safe,\" as she spreads blood atop his forehead.<\/p><p><em>Werwulf<\/em> is set to release on Dec. 25. This is similar to <em>Nosferatu<\/em>, which released on Christmas Day in 2024.<\/p><p><em>Nosferatu<\/em> became Focus Features' second-highest-grossing movie in the U.S. It made $90.5 million in theaters after its December 2024 release.<\/p><div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmjpadVj-Vk?si=aOOadgl7Un6BAaoL\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Man in director Robert Eggers\u2019 &#8216;Werwulf.&#8217; (Rory Mulvey)The official trailer for Robert Eggers&#8217; Werwulf has arrived.Focus Features released the first trailer for the upcoming film on Monday.Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as a c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1519042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/dbc1db32a217a8fc570222e2dbbdef9a.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 13:46:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/dbc1db32a217a8fc570222e2dbbdef9a.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519043,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519039\/revisions\/1519043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}