Willem Dafoe is in talks for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake

Willem Dafoe could star in director Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” remake. His involvement has not yet been officially confirmed. However, the actor is in talks for a role, reports say deadline.com.

Eggers is planning a remake of the silent film “Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens” by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, to which “Shadow of the Vampire” also refers. Released in 1922, the film is loosely based on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. In addition to directing, Eggers will also be responsible for the screenplay. If the director and Dafoe agree on the role negotiations, the film could become the men’s third collaboration. The two previously worked together on the films The Lighthouse and The Northman.

Dafoe has experience with vampire films – in the horror film “Shadow of the Vampire” he played Max Schreck, the actor of Nosferatu in the silent films. He was even nominated for an Oscar for this role. However, he’s reportedly not being cast as a bloodsucker this time around – that role definitely goes to Bill Skarsgård (“It”). The female lead will be cast by Lily-Rose Depp (“Yoga Hosers”). Nicholas Hoult is also part of the cast. The actor can currently be seen opposite Nicolas Cage as Dracula’s sidekick Renfield in the horror comedy of the same name. It is not yet known which character Dafoe could embody now.

“Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horrors” was to be destroyed as an unauthorized “Dracula” adaptation in 1925 after a copyright dispute. The film survived in various cut versions, and can be seen in several restored versions. It tells the story of Thomas Hutter, who travels to Count Orlok (Nosferatu) in the Carpathians to buy a house. There he finds out that the Count is a vampire. Orlok, who has fallen in love with Hutter’s wife, goes to Wisborg and brings the plague to Hutter’s hometown. The silent film was remade in 1979 by Werner Herzog as “Nosferatu – Phantom of the Night”.

<!–

–>

<!–

–>