Check out the trailer for “Nosferatu”, starring Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp. The film will be released in France on January 1, 2025.
After Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski, in a first remake by Werner Herzog in 1979, Nosferatu returns to the cinema in 2025, with a new incarnation, and the first (creepy) images are finally here! The trailer has just been revealed.
“Does Evil come from us or from beyond?“, asks Lily-Rose Depp in the trailer, which plays full on suspense… “He’s coming, he’s coming…” (He’s coming, he’s coming).
Nosferatu is today played by Bill Skarsgard, a regular in Metamorphosis. Facing him, Nicholas Hoult will be Thomas Hutter, who discovers Count Orlok’s castle in the Carpathians. And Lily-Rose Depp his wife Ellen, with whom the vampire will fall in love before tracking her down in 19th century Germany.
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After playing Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire, the story of the filming of the first Nosferatu, Willem Dafoe will track down Count Orlok in the guise of Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz, a hunter inspired by the character of Bulwer in the original. Who was a derivative of Van Helsing in the “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson will play the role of Friedrich Harding, a friend of Hutter who should have a slightly more important role in this new film. Just like his wife Anna, played by Emma Corrin.
The cast is completed by Simon McBurney (Knock, a businessman who has a telepathic link with Orlok and sends Hutter into his clutches) and Ralph Ineson, in the role of Doctor Wilhelm Sievers.
All in front of Robert Eggers’ camera. Which, after a detour through Viking mythology (The Northman), returns to the gothic horror of The Witch, the film of his debut.
What will Nosferatu tell?
To put it simply: if you want to know the story of Nosferatu, you take the story of Dracula, and you change the names. Because FW Murnau’s film is an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel, which the rights holders have not validated.
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Robert Eggers’ version should therefore retain many elements, from the overall plot to 19th century Germany as the location of the action, including the look of Count Orlok, very far from the seductive side often associated with vampires ( but which we found, in part, in Werner Herzog’s film).
Nosferatu by Robert Eggers will be released on January 1, 2025.
