Willem Dafoe arrives for the Academy Awards annual nominees luncheon for the 90th Oscars at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 5, 2018. D Dafoe is up for the Best Supporting Actor Award category for the film "The Florida Project." Pic/AFP

Willem Dafoe is in negotiations to star in the thriller "The Lighthouse". If finalised, "The Florida Project" star will play the role of an ageing lighthouse keeper in Nova Scotia in a story set in the early 20th Century.