{"title":"Robert Eggers – A24 Screenplay Books","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRobert Eggers A24 screenplay books and MACK editions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers Robert Eggers books currently available at Lokator100. The editions stocked here belong to the A24 Screenplay Collection, distributed in book form by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Browse all MACK Books editions available at Lokator100\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e — a publisher whose approach to film-related publishing treats the printed object as a serious reading format rather than a promotional supplement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe titles in this collection include \u003cem\u003eThe Witch\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-lighthouse-screenplay-book-robert-eggers\" title=\"Buy The Lighthouse screenplay book by Robert Eggers at Lokator100\"\u003eThe Lighthouse Screenplay Book\u003c\/a\u003e. Both are MACK-distributed editions from the A24 Screenplay Collection. Stock is limited and changes over time; available titles are shown above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eScreenplay books as reading objects\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Eggers's films are often remembered for atmosphere first: weather, wood, darkness, ritual, labour, dialect, and the pressure of enclosed worlds. On the page, another structure becomes clearer. The screenplay books make visible how that atmosphere is built — through cadence, research, and a highly controlled relation between language and setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is why the A24 screenplay books matter as reading objects. They do not reduce the films to scripts; they reopen them on different terms. In book form, \u003cem\u003eThe Witch\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e can be followed not only as narratives but as systems of tone: historically inflected, materially precise, and built around folklore, belief, and dread. The page format makes the structural logic of Eggers's filmmaking legible in ways the screen does not always foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Robert Eggers\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Eggers is an American filmmaker whose feature work includes \u003cem\u003eThe Witch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Northman\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNosferatu\u003c\/em\u003e. His films are strongly associated with period settings, historical authenticity, and the use of folklore and myth as structuring forces rather than decoration. Enclosed worlds, sustained dread, and rigorous research into dialect and material culture are consistent features of his practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers interested in the broader context of cinema-adjacent publishing, the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/film-books-film-culture\" title=\"Explore film books and film culture titles at Lokator100\"\u003eFilm Books \u0026amp; Film Culture\u003c\/a\u003e collection at Lokator100 offers related titles across photography, criticism, and film history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMini-FAQ\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWho is Robert Eggers?\u003c\/strong\u003e An American filmmaker best known for period films including \u003cem\u003eThe Witch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Northman\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNosferatu\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAre these A24 screenplay books?\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes — the titles in this collection belong to the A24 Screenplay Collection and are distributed in book form by MACK.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhere can I buy Robert Eggers MACK books?\u003c\/strong\u003e If a title is in stock at Lokator100, it can be purchased directly from the product cards on this page.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-lighthouse-screenplay-book-robert-eggers","title":"The Lighthouse Screenplay Book - Robert Eggers","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Lighthouse Screenplay Book — A24 × MACK Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is \u003cem\u003eThe Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e screenplay book in the A24 × MACK edition: a large-format embossed hardcover that presents \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/robert-eggers\" title=\"Browse all Robert Eggers titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eRobert Eggers\u003c\/a\u003e's script not as a production document but as a reading object — measured, material, and editorially expanded well beyond the film itself. It belongs to the A24 Screenplay Collection, produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Browse all MACK Books publications available at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Film and the Screenplay\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lighthouse\u003c\/em\u003e (2019) is a chamber film set on a remote New England island in the late nineteenth century. Two wickies — one senior, one new — are stranded together as weather closes in, labour grows punishing, and the boundary between myth and psychology dissolves. The film was co-written by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers, and shot in black-and-white in a near-square aspect ratio that already feels like a printed page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe screenplay-as-book format suits this particular film precisely because so much of its force lives in language: the cadence of period dialogue, the density of nautical and folkloric vocabulary, and the deliberate rhythms of stage direction. Reading the script slows the film down into something examinable — a text that rewards the same attention the film demands from a viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eEditorial Contents\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition opens with an introduction by \u003cstrong\u003eWillem Dafoe\u003c\/strong\u003e, who played the senior keeper Thomas Wake. His contribution is written from inside the production, offering a perspective on the material that neither a critical essay nor a making-of account could provide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo literary essays follow. \u003cstrong\u003eLauren Groff\u003c\/strong\u003e — known for fiction that engages closely with landscape, isolation, and myth — contributes a piece that reads the screenplay against its wider cultural and literary coordinates. \u003cstrong\u003eIan McGuire\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose novel \u003cem\u003eThe North Water\u003c\/em\u003e occupies similar territory of nineteenth-century hardship and psychological extremity, brings a novelist's attention to the script's construction and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume also includes selected pages from an 1881 lighthouse keeper's guide — archival material that grounds the film's period detail and functions as a documentary counterpoint to the screenplay's fiction. Taken together, these elements make this edition considerably more than a printed script.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication sits within the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/film-books-film-culture\" title=\"Explore our curated selection of film books and film culture titles\"\u003eFilm Books \u0026amp; Film Culture\u003c\/a\u003e category alongside other serious treatments of cinema as a textual and visual practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52427828592986,"sku":"978-1-960078-04-9","price":62.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/the-lighthouse-screenplay-book-front-cover.jpg?v=1778624494"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/robert-eggers.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}