Anya Taylor-Joy Offers Update on Director Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU Remake

Sometimes information in the Hollywood world comes out unexpectedly. This news stems from past speculation and current mystery.

Actress Anya Taylor-Joy is one of Hollywood’s go-to actors right now, and her slate is full. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times she offered an update on her next film project, a remake of Nosferatu:

Right now, Taylor-Joy, 25, seems to be everyone’s kind of girl. Her schedule is booked solid for the next 2½ years, starting soon with “The Menu,” a dark comedy set in the world of exotic culinary culture directed by Mark Mylod (“Succession”) and then moving next year to “Furiosa,” George Miller’s prequel to “Mad Max: Fury Road.” After that, she’ll reunite with “Queen’s Gambit” writer-director Scott Frank for the thriller “Laughter in the Dark” and Eggers again in a reworking of the vampire classic “Nosferatu,” the latest collaboration in a partnership that began with her first “real film,” the unnerving 2016 horror movie “The Witch.”

The Eggers that they are referring to is Robert Eggers, the director of The Witch and The Lighthouse. He is a true master of suspense. He knows how to put the audience into heads of the players on the screen. I feel that is the key component to make a successful horror film. He is also the reason that we have Anya Taylor-Joy in our lives. He cast her in her first move, 2015’s The Witch.

Eggers and Taylor-Joy have been quietly been talking about collaborating with one another again for this project for a few years now, and it is awesome to finally get some confirmation on this. I am a big fan of the horror genre and Eggers takes his contribution to the genre seriously.

Noseratu is one of the ultimate classic horror films. If done right, a remake could be truly horrifying. I think Eggers has the chops to do this film justice.