Ever since Robert Eggers introduced his arrival on the auteur filmmaking scene with 2015’s The Witch, he’s let it’s recognized that he meant to sort out an adaptation of vampire traditional Nosferatu. That undertaking is lastly ramping up, with a killer forged introduced at the moment.

Deadline reports that Eggers has tapped It’s Bill Skarsgård (after directing Bill’s brother Alexander in The Northman, Eggers appears to be amassing Skarsgårds like they’re Pokémon), who’ll play the undead Count Orlock, and Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol). Eggers is understood for digging into deep folklore and cultural aesthetics and imbuing them with typically supernatural panache—his resume additionally contains unforgettable whatsit The Lighthouse—and Nosferatu undoubtedly suits into that. He’ll each direct and pen the script for the movie that Deadline describes as “a new reimagining,” although the logline is acquainted: “Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Depp) in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire (Skarsgard) who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.”

Eggers has mentioned previously that he hopes to reunite with Northman and Lighthouse star Willem Dafoe on Nosferatu, which is sensible since he beforehand performed Max Schreck—Count Orlock in F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent traditional—in E. Elias Merhige’s underrated meta-horror Shadow of the Vampire. Though Skarsgård is now taking part in Orlock in Eggers’ movie, there are many different roles that Dafoe might fill on this timelessly creepy story. We’ll carry you extra on Eggers’ return to the horror style as and after we study it.

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