“The Witch” filmmaker Robert Eggers will re-team with his “The Lighthouse” and “The Northman” co-star Willem Dafoe on the long-gestating “Nosferatu” reimagining at Focus Features.
Dafoe is in talks to join the project, a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Lily Rose-Depp) in 19th-century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire (Bill Skarsgard) who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him. Nicholas Hoult also stars.
Specifics of the role Dafoe is playing are under wraps, but the actor has plenty of familiarity with the material, having played the Nosferatu creature in 2000’s “Shadow of a Vampire” which was darkly comedic fiction spin on the making of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film that was an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” with the names/details changed.
Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus are producing. Dafoe will next be seen in Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” Vasilis Katsoupis’ “Inside” and Walter Hill’s “Dead For a Dollar”.
It was revealed this week that Dafoe also recently shot filmmaker Olmo Schnabel’s romantic thriller “Pet Shop Boys” about two young men an impulsive black sheep (Dario Yazebek Bernal) and a college-age pet store employee (Jack Irv) exploring the underbelly of New York as they engage in a whirlwind affair. Peter Sarsgaard, Emmanuelle Seigner, Maribel Verdu, Jordi Molla and Angela Sarafyan co-star.
Source: Deadline
