If you ever fantasized about Viggo’s naked fight in Eastern Promises mashed up with Anakin and Obi-Wan’s final lava lightsaber duel, then The Northman will make your dreams come true. The climactic nude duel, in which Amleth finally faces off against his uncle, is not only very naked, but takes place inside a volcano.
It’s violent, it’s gory, it’s psychedelic, and most importantly it has, spoiler alert, a naked sword fight. Leave it to Eggers to give us the brutal viking origin story of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. I will kill you, Fjölnir.” have finally conjured Robert Egger’s historical epic The Northman into theaters! The film stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, the viking warrior who becomes hell bent on avenging the murder of his father after he witnesses his brutal death at the hands of his uncle Fjölnir. Bloody beefy boy hive, assemble! Our months of chanting “I will avenge you, father.