Max Eggers
Birthdate: Jun 6, 1990
Birthplace: Laramie, Wyoming
Max Eggers is a director/screenwriter who has worked in many different areas of film production, and who has worked as creative collaborator with twin filmmaking brother Sam Eggers. Max Eggers has also worked closely with his acclaimed half-brother, filmmaker Robert Eggers, first as production assistant on Robert’s short film based on the Edgar Allen Poe short story, The Tell-Tale Heart (2008).
Max Eggers rejoined half-brother and director/co-writer Robert as co-screenwriter of the intense 1890s-set drama, The Lighthouse (2019), co-starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, and released by A24 to an $18.3 million return after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival. Eggers was co-director and co-writer (with brother Sam) of the psychological surrealist drama based on Susan Hill’s short story, The Front Room (2024), starring Brandy, Kathryn Hunter, Andrew Burnap, and Neal Huff, and released in a wide pattern by A24.
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Max Eggers was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, by parents Walter (university provost) and Kelly (actor, dancer). Eggers was then raised in Lee, New Hampshire. Eggers has a twin brother and filmmaking partner, Sam. Eggers has a half-brother, filmmaker Robert Eggers, with whom he and Sam grew up. Max attended public schools in Oyster River, New Hampshire, including Oyster River High School. Max learned about performance and stage production from his mother Kelly, who founded the Oyster River Players theater company.
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- 2024 | The Front Room
The Front Room
It tells the story of a newly pregnant couple who are forced to take in an ailing, estranged stepmother.
Some Facts About Max Eggers
Parents: Max Eggers’ father was a Shakespearean professor, and his mother ran a children’s theater camp in rural New Hampshire.
Haunted: Eggers (with brother Sam) filmed in a reputed haunted house on the production of The Front Room.
Inspiration: Max Eggers has cited a key visual inspiration as the surrealist painter Dorothea Tanning.
