The Lighthouse Screenplay Book - Robert Eggers

The Lighthouse screenplay book — overview

The Lighthouse Screenplay Book is not only a printed script. It turns Robert Eggers’s film into a reading object: something slower, more material, and more exacting than a simple tie-in. The text of the screenplay is set against essays, historical fragments, and a voice from inside the film itself — Willem Dafoe, who writes the introduction.

That structure suits the film. The Lighthouse has always felt less like a plot machine than a sealed atmosphere: two keepers, one island, late nineteenth-century New England, and a world narrowing under storm, labour, superstition, and obsession. In book form, that pressure becomes more legible. You read the cadence of Eggers’s language, the density of period detail, and the way the film’s black-and-white severity was already present in the writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: A24 × MACK
• Format: Embossed hardcover
• Size: 20.3 × 28 cm
• Pages: 216
• Includes: introduction by Willem Dafoe
• Also includes: essays by Lauren Groff and Ian McGuire
• Archival material: selected pages from a lighthouse keeper’s guide published in 1881
• ISBN: 978-1-960078-04-9

Mini-FAQ

• Is this The Lighthouse screenplay book by Robert Eggers? Yes — this is the A24 × MACK edition of Robert Eggers’s screenplay book for The Lighthouse.
• Is this an A24 book? Yes — it belongs to the A24 Screenplay Collection distributed through MACK.
• What makes this edition more than a script? It adds Willem Dafoe’s introduction, essays by Lauren Groff and Ian McGuire, and historical lighthouse material from 1881.
• Where can I buy The Lighthouse screenplay book? If this copy is in stock, you can purchase it directly from this product page.

Publisher / Manufacturer: Mack Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Website: https://mackbooks.eu/

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