Robert Eggers, who is coming off last April’s critically-acclaimed “The Northman,” has started production on his long-gestating passion project, “Nosferatu.” The shoot will start in Prague and then move to Toronto next month.
Eggers’ decade-in-the-making project finally got greenlit in October via Focus Features. Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are part of the cast. Eggers regular Jarin Blaschke will be the cinematographer.
"Nosferatu" is well-known as the essential and most iconic Vampire in cinema. There's 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.”
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.”