Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)

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Batfan175 wrote:Instead of retelling the same vampire story we've seen done as classics twice (three times if you count Shadow of the Vampire) he could also just try to tell an original vampire story.
Because knowing the story in advance does not cheapen the experience.

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Allstar wrote:
Batfan175 wrote:Instead of retelling the same vampire story we've seen done as classics twice (three times if you count Shadow of the Vampire) he could also just try to tell an original vampire story.
Because knowing the story in advance does not cheapen the experience.
It doesn't. I'm not saying it's going to be a bad film, I just wished he kept on creating original stories because I would generally prefer to watch those.

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Robert Eggers long awaited new take on the Nosferatu tale looks to be gaining some serious momentum as sources tell Deadline Bill Skarsgard is attached to play the titular character and Lily-Rose Depp is in talks to co-star. The pic is now set up at Focus Features with Eggers directing and penning the script. Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Robert Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus.

In the new reimagining, the pic is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Depp) in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire (Skarsgard) who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.

The film has been a passion project of Eggers for years and came close to coming together in 2019 with Anya Taylor-Joy and Harry Styles at Studio 8. The film was put on pause as Studio 8 figured out a budget and talent schedules. Eggers would ultimately pushed paused on the movie and moved on to his Viking pic The Northman, which bowed earlier this year.

After The Northman bowed earlier this year, Eggers started looking at other projects but always had his eye on coming back to the gothic tale and once Focus came aboard he officially made it his next film and began meeting with talent. Skarsgard has been loosely attached to play Eggers’ new take on the 19th Century monster going back to when he was developing the project with Styles and Taylor-Joy and quickly got Skarsgard to slot the pic into his schedule before it got filled up.

Taylor-Joy has become one of the busier movie stars in town and couldn’t fit the film into that busy schedule, leaving an opening for the role of the female protagonist at the center of the story. Following a number of meetings, Depp would emerge as Eggers’ top choice for the role.

Skarsgard is coming off his hit horror pic Barbarian, which he also exec produced. He has a busy 2023 coming up that includes the Netflix thriller Boy Kills World and John Wick: Chapter 4. He is also attached to star in The Crow reboot that Rupert Sanders is directing.

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