Universal Pictures and Focus Features havefinallyreleased a prevue for Robert Eggers’long - awaitedremake of F.W. Murnau ’s 1922 horror film , Nosferatu . Take a face :
As you may have noticed , the trailer is deliberately withhold of Bill Skarsgård ’s Count Orlok , with various characters simply chant he ’s “ coming”—and this Christmas , no less .
Nosferatu is a heat task for director Eggers ; a2016 Indiewire interviewquotes him as saying it “ feel ugly and blasphemous and egomaniacal and disgusting ” for “ a filmmaker in [ his ] place ” to remake Murnau ’s 102 - year old classic . Especially considering Werner Herzog already knocked it out of the common with his1979 remake , Nosferatu the Vampyre , asterisk Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski — and do n’t forget that movie’sincredible soundtrackby the German progressive John Rock radical Popul Vuh . Nosferatu 2024 composer Robin Carolan will also have a mint to live on up to in twinkle of the flick ’s legacy .
Screenshot: Focus
What do you think ? Will Bill Skarsgård ’s carrying out hold to candle to Max Schreck ’s ? Can egger capture the Murnau plastic film ’s lingering sense of apprehensiveness ? Perhaps its good not to equate . To cite the original , “ mind that his shadow doth not burden your dream with horrible fear . ”
Nosferatu maven Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok , Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter , Lily - Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter , Aaron Taylor - Johnson as Friedrich Harding , Emma Corrin as Anna Harding , Willem Dafoe as Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz , Simon McBurney as Herr Knock , and Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers . As previously mentioned , it ’s presently schedule for a December 25 theatrical handout escort .
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