‘Nosferatu’: Read The Screenplay For Robert Eggers’ Dream Project Revamping A Gothic Nightmare
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Nosferatu, Focus Features‘ gothic horror from writer-director Robert Eggers.
Set in 1830s Baltic Germany, Eggers reimagines the tale with Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, a fictional character who originally appeared in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror directed by F.W.
Murnau. Focus Features released the film on Christmas Day, since becoming Eggers’ highest-grossing movie at the domestic box office with $53 million and counting.
It picked up five Critics Choice nominations among its recognition this season among critics groups. In Eggers’ Nosferatu, estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with Orlok, a vampiric prospective client.
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