Count Orlok Is Coming in The First Trailer for Robert Egger's Nosferatu

Universal Pictures and Focus Features person finally released a trailer for Robert Eggers’ long-awaited remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 fearfulness film, Nosferatu. Take a look:

As you whitethorn person noticed, the trailer is deliberately withholding of Bill Skarsgård’s Count Orlok, with assorted characters simply intoning he’s “coming” — and this Christmas, nary less.

A passionateness task for manager Eggers’, a 2016 interview quotes him arsenic saying it “feels disfigured and blasphemous and egomaniacal and disgusting” for “a filmmaker successful [his] place” to remake Murnau’s 102-year aged classic. Especially considering Werner Herzog already knocked it retired of the parkland with his 1979 remake, Nosferatu the Vampyre, starring Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski— and let’s don’t don’t hide that movie’s incredible soundtrack by the German progressive stone group, Popul Vuh. Nosferatu 2024 composer Robin Carolan volition besides person a batch to unrecorded up to successful airy of the film’s legacy.

What bash you think? Will Bill Skarsgård’s show clasp to candle to Max Schreck’s? Can Eggers’ seizure the Murnau film’s lingering consciousness of dread? Perhaps its champion not to compare. To punctuation the original, “beware that his shadiness doth not load your dreams with horrible fears.”

Nosferatu stars Bill Skarsgård arsenic Count Orlok, Nicholas Hoult arsenic Thomas Hutter, Lily-Rose Depp arsenic Ellen Hutter, Aaron Taylor-Johnson arsenic Friedrich Harding, Emma Corrin arsenic Anna Harding, Willem Dafoe arsenic Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz, Simon McBurney arsenic Herr Knock and Ralph Ineson arsenic Dr. Wilhelm Sievers. As antecedently mentioned, it’s presently scheduled for a December 25 theatrical merchandise date.

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