In December of this year we will have the premiere in theaters of the long-awaited remake of the horror classic, Nosferatuby the screenwriter and director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman).
Focus Features' marketing campaign featured the project's first official poster, centered around a single image of Count Orlock, who in this version is played by Bill Skarsgård (The Crow, Barbarian, It). The poster is accompanied by the slogan “Succumb to the darkness.”
The rest of the main cast is made up of Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol, Silent Night) as Ellen Hutter, wife of real estate agent, Thomas, of Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, Renfield), Emma Corrin (The Crown, My Policeman), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Bullet Train, Nocturnal Animals), Simon McBurney (The Conjuring 2, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation), Ralph Ineson (The Witch, The Northman), y Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse, The Northman) as Professor Albin Eberthart Von Franz, vampire hunter.
The poster is available at the end of this note.
SYNOPSIS NOSPHERE:
“In the new reimagining, Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a bewitched young woman (Lily-Rose Depp) in 19th-century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire (Bill Skarsgard) who stalks her, bringing with him unspeakable horror.”
Eggers wrote and directed the remake, as well as producing it alongside Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus.
Previously, Eggers shared about his film:
“Yes, it's a scary movie. It's a horror movie. It's a gothic horror movie. And I think it's been a while since there's been a scary old-school gothic movie. And I think most audiences will find that to be the case.”
Eggers earned critical and audience acclaim with his debut feature, the independent horror film The Witch (2016), which is considered by many to be her favorite of the modern-day genre. In 2019 he presented his second feature film, the also acclaimed film The Lighthouse, while in 2022 it launched its thirdthe epic Viking revenge adventure, The Northman.
The original 1922 silent film and German horror classic was directed by German Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Its script unofficially adapts the story from Bram Stoker's book, Draculaproviding audiences with an image that became iconic to film culture. In 1979, Werner Herzog directed another version of the classic.
Focus Features will distribute the film in the U.S. market, while Universal Pictures will distribute it in the international market. The Release date set for December 25, 2024.
Poster (via Letterboxd):
Source: https://cine3.com/remake-nosferatu-presenta-poster-robert-eggers/
