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Willem Dafoe collaborates for the third time with director Robert Eggers in Nosferatu, a reinterpretation of the myth of Dracula starring Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard.
Willem Dafoe will return to cooperation for the third time with the director Robert Eggers. The occasion is gothic horror Nosferatubased – very loosely – on Friedrich Murnau’s masterpiece Noseferatu the Vampireitself an adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Nosferatu – Robert Eggers gothic horror plot and cast
Willem Dafoe will join the project – which is currently filming – in a currently unknown role. In this new version, the story will revolve around the theme of obsession. A young womanwho lives in 19th century Germany, is indeed tormented by an ancient vampire of Transylvania, Nosferatu, who persecutes and follows her everywhere, bringing with him an unspeakable horror. In the role of the protagonist we find Lily-Rose Depp – daughter of Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp -, already appeared in some projects, among which they stand out PlanetariumThe Loyal Man by Louis Garel and the Netflix movie The king with Timothée Chalamet. To take on the role of Nosferatu and instead Bill Skarsgardformer interpreter of the terrifying clown Pennywise in the two reboot chapters of It. Then complete the cast Nicholas Houltalso expected in the horror comedy version of the Dracula myth, Renfield.
Nosferatu also sees director Robert Eggers as producer, in collaboration with Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus. The film also enshrines the third collaboration between the filmmaker and Willem Dafoeafter The Lighthouse And The Northman. The actor has also already appeared in a film centered on the figure of Nosferatu, The Shadow of the Vampire – which earned him his second Academy Award nomination. Among Dafoe’s next projects include then AND And Poor Thingsboth directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, ed Asteroid City by Wes Anderson, in which she stars alongside an all-star cast led by Margot Robbie and Tom Hanks. The actor then recently appeared in Dead for a dollarwestern in which she stars alongside Christoph Waltz – presented out of competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival – and in Spider-Man: No Way Homewhere he reprized his role as villain Norman Osborn\Green Goblin. Nosferatu does not currently have a release date and it is not clear when filming will end. All that remains is to wait for further updates.
