The Lighthouse Screenplay Book

by Robert Eggers

The book of Robert Eggers’s script for The Lighthouse includes an introduction by Willem Dafoe, essays by novelists Lauren Groff and Ian McGuire, and select pages pulled from a lighthouse keeper’s guide published in 1881.

Genres: Film

216 pages, Hardcover

Published July 1, 2024

Reviews

[Logan Agnew · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite films of all time, and it was really fun to be able and take a deeper look into the script. It clears up some details, yet also adds a lot of nuance to my understanding of the film.

Also all of the bonus material is really interesting, and the packaging on the A24 script is really fun and impressive!

[Reko Ukko · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fab screenplay - the scenes are just marvellous and its obvious it translated to the screen in an excellent way. One of my favorite films in the past few years!

[Tucker · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not a review of the actual movie. Rather, I’m reflecting on the experience of reading the script along with the prior and following essays. The script itself is very engaging to read after seeing the movie as much as I have; being able to picture individual scenes and feel the emotion and intent behind each word and action. As for the essays, Willem Dafoe’s was easily my favorite, as his real passion for acting and the material is so evident and his writing gives some interesting context to the chemistry between him and Robert Pattinson and what it was like to work on the set. The essay by Ian McGuire was perfect for summarizing the literary genius of the film and how it uses mythology and the character’s roles in the story and in their tropes, and Lauren Groff’s retelling of her experiences in Maine’s frontier sold me on the authenticity of this film. Sadly, these essays were definitely not as developed as I would have liked. It was more fun than anything, and it certainly made me want to rewatch this incredible and horrifying experience of a film.

[W · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful design book. I loved the screenplay and the movie. The supplementary content was nice, but a bit sparse (essentially 3-4 pages of essays). Robert Eggars should direct the collected works of Shakespeare. I chuckled when I got to the “bibliography” and everything was either Wikipedia or Merriam Webster’s—alas, ye still might spin brilliant yarn with ratline stuff.
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Should pale death with treble dread,
make the ocean caves our bed,
God who hears the surges roll
deign to save the suppliant soul…

Goddamn yer farts!

[Lindsey Curtis · Rating 4 out of 5]

god lauren groff is insufferable