Director Robert Eggers has added Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, Bullett Prepare) to the ensemble forged of his highly-anticipated Nosferatu film.
He joins Lily Rose-Depp, Invoice Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Defoe, and Emma Corrin within the film. On this new reimagining, Nosferatu tells the haunting gothic story of obsession between a haunted younger girl (Depp) in Nineteenth-century Germany and the traditional Transylvanian vampire (Skarsgard) who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.
This movie is a ardour venture for Eggers. He additionally has an extended attention-grabbing historical past with the movie as a result of when he was in highschool, he produced a remake of it for his senior-year venture. When speaking about that, he mentioned:
“Then, after I was 17, I directed the senior play [of] ‘Nosferatu.’ It was very expressionist, it was rather more expressionist than the movie is. It was ‘Cupboard of Dr. Caligari’ type [German Expressionistic].”
He went on to speak about what he would have carried out with the movie when he was 17, and what he’s seeking to do with the latest movie, saying:
“That’s after I realized that is what I wish to be doing. ‘Nosferatu’ has a really shut, magical connection for me. Although if I have been to make the film 17-year-old Rob was going to make of ‘Nosferatu’ it could have been one thing between like ‘The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas’ and ‘Sin Metropolis,’ whereas that is going to be the identical method as ‘The Witch,’ the place 1830s Biedermeier Baltic Germany must be articulated in a manner that appears actual.”
F.W. Murnau is the director of the unique 1922, whereas German filmmaker Werner Herzog notably directed his personal model of the traditional story again in 1979.
The Focus Options venture is ready to shoot on areas in Europe subsequent month. The film is being produced by Jeff Robinson, John Graham, Eggers, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus.
Taylor-Johnson will subsequent be seen in Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter. He additionally not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on the upcoming action-adventure movie The Fall Man, reteaming with director David Leitch.
