Willem Dafoe Wants a Piece of ‘The Antichrist’

Posted by Adam Sweeney (adam@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 14, 2008

He’s played a green goblin, Nosferatu, and Jesus Christ. Now Willem Dafoe looks to hit for the cycle of controversial roles in Antichrist.

Dafoe will star alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg, who stood out in 21 Grams and The Science of Sleep. The stars will play a couple who head off to an isolated cabin in the woods (Is there really any other kind in movies?) following their child’s death.

The psychological thriller/horror film’s budget is 11 million dollars, or the cost of a single tire for the Bat-Pod. No word yet if Gainsbourg, who is a pretty well-respected pop artist, will head up the soundtrack. They could get Ashlee Simpson, which would be truly horrific.

What do you think? What’s your favorite Willem Dafoe character?

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Schofizzy

"Cry Baby" hands down, it is probably his shortest screen time in any film, but so damn funny! "Were gonaa give you a wiffle! You know what that is Cry Baby?...Hehehehe!"

Supernetuser

What does a couple in an isolated cabin in the woods have to do with the Antichrist anyway?

Dengar

The Boondock Saints, also American Psyco. Very good performances.

He'd better be the freaking Anti-christ

JMoney

Agent Smecker no doubt. regardless of your opinion on Boondock Saints, his performance is amazing.

Vikki Sixx

SGT ELIAS! As great as he was in everything else he has ever done (and yes, that includes Body Of Evidence...no one can say the parking garage scene is anything less than insanely sexy) this was the greatest role he has ever played. That image of him on his knees will forever be burned into my brain (and is being thrown around as my latest tattoo idea to go with my Night of the Living Dead tattoo). He was robbed in 87 by not receiving the Oscar(much like in 01 when he lost for his role as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire). Secondary I would have to go with Last Temptation of Christ, though. Even my mother, a devout Christian, had to admit that he was amazing in it after I forced her to watch it.

Adam Sweeney

Good calls on the performances. We watched Last Temptation at our university, which was a private Lutheran college. It was worth it, if only to see the reactions of everyone. But Dafoe, as always, was phenomenal.

A Night of the Living Dead tattoo? This we gotta see. My Shaun of the Dead one isn't quite as cool. Sigh. Kidding.