Nosferatu Director Robert Eggers Wants Willem Dafoe To Star In Remake
The Northman director, Robert Eggers, has revealed that he wants Willem Dafoe in the cast of his long-awaited Nosferatu remake. The two began a working relationship with The Lighthouse, which debuted in 2019. Their latest collaboration, The Northman, debuts in theaters on April 22.
The original Nosferatu was directed by F.W. Murnau and debuted in cinemas in 1922. A loose adaptation of the iconic Dracula story, the film follows a vampire named Count Orlock (Max Schreck), who descends upon a town to bring terror to an unsuspecting real estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and his wife (Greta Schröder). Nosferatu is considered a quintessential piece of German Expressionism and one of the original films that helped to form the DNA of the horror genre as fans know it today. It has become so iconic, that in 2000, Dafoe even portrayed Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire – a fictionalized telling of the making of Nosferatu, which presupposed that Schreck himself was an actual vampire.
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With so much iconography behind Nosferatu and its version of the Dracula myth, many horror fans are eager for Eggers to take a crack at his highly anticipated Nosferatu remake. Eggers recently opened up about the remake to Slashfilm and confirmed that, if the film does indeed happen, he demands Dafoe be part of the production. Eggers said:
'Nosferatu' is such an incredibly important film and story for me, so it's always percolating. If Willem… if 'Nosferatu' is made, Willem better damn well be in it because I just love working with him… but, you know, maybe he would play Ellen? Who knows.
So, while nothing is confirmed at this time, Eggers wants Dafoe in the movie. However, before that can happen, the
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