Nosferatu: Anya Taylor-Joy still attached to Robert Eggers film

Soon after Robert Eggers’ feature directorial debut The Witch (watch it HERE) had its Sundance premiere in 2015, it was announced that Eggers would be directing a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu (watch that HERE). A couple years later, The Witch star Anya Taylor-Joy entered negotiations to have a role in Eggers’ Nosferatu. Taylor-Joy’s career exploded after The Witch, though, and figuring out where to fit Nosferatu into her busy schedule is an issue. Eggers has gone on to make The Lighthouse in the meantime and was able to get Taylor-Joy into his upcoming film The Northman, but it looks like we can expect Nosferatu to go into production, with Taylor-Joy in the cast, sometime within the next two and a half years.

Reporting that Taylor-Joy is booked solid for the next two and a half years, the L.A. Times noted that she’ll soon be filming the darkly comedic psychological thriller The Menu, and will follow that up with George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa, where she’ll be replacing Charlize Theron in the title role.

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.”

An unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Nosferatu has the following synopsis:

In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

Stoker’s heirs sued Murnau over the film and a court ordered that all copies of Nosferatu were to be destroyed, but thankfully some survived. Werner Herzog directed a remake in 1979, and the movies Shadow of the Vampire and Mimesis Nosferatu both dealt with the making of Nosferatu movies.