Lily-Rose Depp in the first photo from the movie “Nosferatu”. Directed by the creator of “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse”

Robert Eggers updates the classic

The first photo of Lily-Rose Depp Ellen Hutter, who stares in horror at Count Orlok. We do not see him in the picture, except for the shadow cast by his hand.

In the text accompanying the picture, we can read the director’s joy at Bill Skarsgård’s transformation into Count Orlok. The manager claims so The actor completely disappeared, becoming the embodiment of the vampire from folk tales. In his opinion, Skarsgård looks as if he were already a dead Transylvanian nobleman.

Eggers also announced that his film Nosferatu will be a truly scary gothic horror film. In his opinion, there had not been a gothic horror story in cinema for a long time that would actually be full of horror. His film aims to change that.

new “Nosferatu” It will not be a copy of the original by F.W. Murnau, of which Eggers is a big fan. His work will change the focus. The film will focus more on the character of Ellen Hutter, who Depp played perfectly if we are to believe the director.

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The long road to creating “Nosferatu”

But Depp wasn’t supposed to be the star of the movie. When Eggers first announced the horror film in 2015, he saw Anya Taylor-Joy, who he had already worked with, in the lead role. Unfortunately, when Eggers was able to shoot the film, the actress was not available. And when Taylor-Joy had a free schedule, the project fell apart (as did when Harry Styles, who was originally supposed to play Ellen’s husband), dropped out of the cast.

Eventually, Nicholas Hoult took over the role of Stiles. The cast also includes Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

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