Robert Eggers’ dream project seems to be more and more real. Two famous actors are set to play lead roles in a horror film.
According to Deadline, Bill Skarsgård and Lily-Rose Depp are to play the lead roles in the new version of Nosferatu . According to the report, Skarsgård would play the title vampire, and Depp the woman he was persecuting. The production is to be a gothic horror film set in 19th century Germany.
Robert Eggers has been wanting to shoot a new Nosferatu for a long time . The first news of these plans came shortly after his successful directorial debut with The Witch: A Fairy Tale of New England . Since then, the subject of this project has been returning and disappearing, and even Eggers himself stated in an interview that perhaps the project was cursed.
So far, apart from Bill Skarsgård and Lily-Rose Depp, two other names have been associated with the project. One was Harry Styles, who was going to play the role of Thomas Hutter. Anya Taylor-Joy was supposed to play the female lead role, but due to her booming career and the sheer volume of other projects, news of her participation faded away. Currently, the actress is working on the prequel Mad Max: On the Road of Wrath focused on the character of Furiosa.