Production wrapped on Robert Eggers’ long-awaited re-imagination of the silent horror movie “Nosferatu“.
The reimagining stars Bill Skarsgård as Dracula and Lily Rose-Depp as the object of his affection, Ellen Hutter.
The cast also incudes Willem Dafoe as Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding, Emma Corrin as Anna Harding, Simon McBurney as Herr Knock, and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers. Nicholas Hoult will also star in an undisclosed role.
Eggers serves as writer and director of "Nosferatu", while Jeff Robinson, John Graham, Eggers, Chris Columbus, and Eleanor Columbus are producing.
Principal photography began filming in Prague in March.
“Nosferatu”, which was released in 1922, is loosely adapted from Bram Stoker’s famous novel “Dracula“.
"Nosferatu" is derived from an archaic Romanian name for a vampire, following a copyright spat with the estate of Bram Stoker, the Irish novelist who wrote the Dracula novel in 1897. Murnau’s vampire was renamed Count Orlok.
The Focus Features project was first announced in 2015, just after the premiere of “The Witch” at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Nosferatu" has been in development for six years; it was suspended in the middle for Eggers to shoot “The Lighthouse” and the Viking drama “The Northman”.
In the new reimagining, Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman Ellen Hutter (Depp) in 19th-century Germany and an ancient nocturnal Transylvanian count (Skarsgård) who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.
Production is currently underway in Prague. Focus will distribute the movie domestically and Universal Pictures International will handle it internationally.
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