Willem Dafoe Says Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU is Unlike Any Film He's Seen Before
One of my most anticipated films of 2024 is director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. The film is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Lily-Rose Depp) and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Willem Dafoe stars in the film as a Van Helsing type of character, and during a recent interview with Total Film, the actor offers some insight, saying this film and its intention are "very different” from his 2000 movie Shadow of the Vampire, which was inspired by the original Nosferatu movie. He also explained that this film is unlike any film he’s ever seen before. He said:
"I think Robert and [cinematographer] Jarin [Blaschke] were in a very good place, and he's getting more and more refined. It's a bigger scale – maybe not quite as big as The Northman, but he was very on top of it. I just saw some pieces, and I didn't get a sense of the film itself, but it was just beautifully photographed. I can’t think of another film that quite looks like it."
Dafoe previously talked about working with Eggers again on this project, saying:
"[Eggers] gets better and better and better, gets more articulate, more on top of it. He's so clear when he works. It opens in December of next year, which is a long time away. Trying to be an optimist, I think the studio must feel very strong about it, because that's quite a tough slot, so I'm excited about that. I saw some footage when we were shooting, and I can honestly say, visually, it was like unlike anything I have seen. … The look of it and how it was shot was extraordinary."
The rest of the cast includes Nicholas Hoult (Renfield), Emma Corrin (Deadpool 3), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), Simon McBurney (The Conjuring 2) and Ralph Ineson (The Witch).
When talking about the movie, Eggers said: “It’s a scary film. It’s a horror movie. It’s a Gothic horror movie. And I do think that there hasn’t been an old-school Gothic movie that’s actually scary in a while. And I think that the majority of audiences will find this one to be the case.”
Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski said in a statement: “The audacious filmmaking of Robert Eggers is always a gift for fans, and we can promise that his Nosferatu is planning quite the Christmas feast.”
The movie will be released in theaters on December 25, 2024.
Source: Total Film