{"id":84420,"date":"2022-10-02T05:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T05:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nosferatu-passion-project-from-northman-director-officially-greenlighted\/"},"modified":"2022-10-02T05:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T05:29:56","slug":"nosferatu-passion-project-from-northman-director-officially-greenlighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nosferatu-passion-project-from-northman-director-officially-greenlighted\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nosferatu’ Passion Project From ‘Northman’ Director Officially Greenlighted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Eggers admirably established himself as a serious filmmaker with his chilling debut, \u201cThe Witch,\u201d psychedelic follow-up \u201cThe Lighthouse\u201d and recent carnage-riddled Viking thriller \u201cThe Northman.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Eggers has always wanted to remake \u201cNosferatu\u201d \u2014 and he’s now getting that chance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Deadline reported that the eponymous vampire in Eggers’ film will be portrayed by Bill Skarsgard, who famously played Pennywise in Andy Muschietti’s 2017 remake of Stephen King’s \u201cIt.\u201d Lily-Rose Depp will reportedly play the female lead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Director Robert Eggers has wanted to remake “Nosferatu” for years, and was first announced to do so in 2015.<\/figcaption>
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FW Murnau’s original 1922 movie \u2014 an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s \u201cDracula\u201d novel \u2014 has been heralded as one of the scariest horror films of all time. The black-and-white silent movie chronicled vampire Count Orlok as he journeys to his Transylvanian home and preys on an innocent woman while terrifying the town with his bloodlust.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Eggers was first announced to helm the remake in 2015, but he had yet to prove himself as a director capable of yielding high returns. When his most genre-centric effort \u201cThe Northman\u201d lacked box-office success, \u201cNosferatu\u201d once again stalled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt’s fallen apart twice,\u201d Eggers told IndieWire as \u201cThe Northman\u201d hit theaters. \u201cI’ve been trying to get the word out because the word did carry that Harry Styles was going to be in the movie. And I just wonder if Murnau’s ghost is telling me, like, you should stop.\u201d Styles and Anya Taylor-Joy were attached to the project before it was put on pause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Murnau’s ghost seemingly changed his mind in recent months, as Eggers will now be writing and directing his passion project for Focus Features. And he clearly knows his subject.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c[Werner] Herzog’s movie [\u2018Nosferatu the Vampyre\u2019 from 1979] \u2014 for me, and I love Herzog, he’s one of my favorite directors \u2014 but I do feel like it is uneven,\u201d Eggers told IndieWire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBut the best sequence of that movie, for me, is getting to the castle with Das Rheingold, and I don’t even know if it makes sense in the movie even though it’s awesome,\u201d he added. \u201cBut at the same time because of German history and German cinema history, it was his right to do that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Eggers posited during that IndieWire interview that \u201cmaybe Murnau’s telling me I don’t have the right\u201d to follow in Herzog’s footsteps. For fans of his \u2014 and those of us who ca n’t get enough of vampire lore on the silver screen \u2014 Eggers could n’t have been more wrong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n