Here’s some great news concerning Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu.” A trailer has been rated and is ready to be released, most likely this week.
The film, set to be in theaters on December 25, might be skipping the fall festivals, but is no less one of our most anticipated films of the fall. It’s been test-screened already a few times with many positive notices having come its way.
The look of the film is fast becoming just as interesting as the story being told. “Nosferatu” was, technically speaking, shot in color by DP Jarin Blaschke, with a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism. In fact, an entirely new filter was engineered just for this film, which is also said to have an aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
Eggers used a combination of lenses and filters to get the effect he was going for — he actually asked a glass manufacturing company to assist him in making the unusual filter. The goal was for the film to look like it was shot in black and white while allowing a few colors, especially blue, to come through into the frame.
Eggers’ decade-in-the-making project, produced by Focus Feature, stars Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The official synopsis for Eggers’ version reads as follows:
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 untold horror with him.
"Nosferatu" is well-known as the essential and most iconic Vampire in cinema. There hasn't been anything quite like F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent-era classic. While we’re at it, check out Dafoe’s terrific depiction of the bloodsucker in 2000’s “Shadow of the Vampire.”
Eggers’ short filmography only includes “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse,” and “The Northman,” but he’s building up quite the following. He even has a popular subreddit group dedicated to his cinema.