The director Robert Eggers continues with the filming of the movie Nosferatu and now he has some very interesting news.
Robert Eggers began to attract attention with films such as The Witch (2015), The Lighthouse (2019) and The Northman (2022). Now, he will make a version of Nosferatu, the film that is already more than 100 years old and directed by FW Murnau in 1922.
Official synopsis:
“Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th-century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing unspeakable horror with him.”
So far, it hasn’t revealed much, although it seems to have been set in the same era as the original.
Department:
We will be able to see Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter, Emma Corrin as Anna Harding, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter and Ralph Ineson as Doctor Wilhelm Sievers. Additionally, they have recently been joined by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Bill Skarsgård and Simon McBurney in as yet undisclosed roles.
As a curiosity, Nicholas Hoult will premiere the film Renfield (2023), where he plays Dracula’s servant (Nicolas Cage). In addition, Willem Dafoe starred in Shadow of the Vampire (2000) which is about the making of the original Nosferatu movie.
Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire
Logo:
Nosferatu
What will the movie be about?
Attention SPOILERS. 1922’s Nosferatu begins by revealing that the plague is coming to Wisborg. Then a real estate agent sends his young partner Thomas Hutter to Transylvania to sell a ramshackle mansion to Count Orlok. Upon arriving there, Thomas is alerted by the locals as they are very afraid of the count, but he ignores it as he wants to sign the deal. Once in the sinister castle, his host acts really suspicious. In fact, he even sucks her blood at night, but Thomas thinks it was the mosquitoes. When the Count sees a portrait of Ellen, the young man’s wife, he signs the purchase contract for the house and rushes to Wisborg.
Once there, Count Orlok spreads the plague causing many victims. At that moment Thomas arrives in Wisborg with a book that reveals many facts about vampires. Her wife realizes that to put an end to that monstrous being, a woman with a pure heart can give her her blood so that she can distract herself by drinking it and thus forget the rooster’s crow. So she comes up with a plan and sacrifices herself to have her blood sucked by the Orlok until dawn, causing her to go up in smoke. Therefore, Ellen dies but with that she ends the plague plague.
We don’t know if Robert Eggers’ version of Nosferatu will be the same. But I’m sure he’ll pick a lot of elements from the original. Film that is available for free on YouTube and you can see below.
