Robert Eggers Might Not Be Making His NOSFERATU Vampire Movie After All

Robert Eggers, the director of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northam, has been developing a new take on the classic 1922 vampire film Nosferatu. He’s been working on this for a few years, and as it was prepping to start production it hit a snag with Harry Styles dropping out of the project.

Anya Taylor-Joy is set to star in the film, and Eggers wants to cast Willem Dafoe in the movie, which would be amazing! But now we don’t even know if the movie is going to even get made. The director is now casting doubt. In a recent interview with Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast, Eggers said:

“Nosferatu was something I saw pretty young that… changed my life. I’m just starting to think that [F.W.] Murnau doesn’t want me to make it. It feels like that.”

“It just feels like it’s so hard, and I don’t know why. And I think [Werner] Herzog had the right… because of German history and German cinema history, to make it. And maybe the ghosts of Murnau and Albin Grau are telling me… stop barking up that tree. I don’t know. That doesn’t mean that that’s true. I’m just wondering.”

F.W. Murnau is the director of the original 1922, while German filmmaker Werner Herzog notably directed his own version of the classic tale back in 1979. Albin Grau was the German art director/architect who worked on the sets and costumes for the film.

This has been a passion project for Eggers, and I seriously hope that he doesn’t give up on it! This has been a film project that I’ve been very much looking forward to! Whatever he’s going through, I hope he sticks with it and presses forward because I think he would make such an incredible Nosferatu movie!