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‘Nosferatu’: Read The Screenplay For Robert Eggers’ Dream Project Revamping A Gothic Nightmare
Focus Features' gothic horror movie Nosferatu from writer-director Robert Eggers reimagines the classic vampire tale.
Deadline’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. Eggers’ process included exploring his story in a different medium: “I ended up writing a novella with extensive backstories and scenes that I knew would never be in the film to understand why Nosferatu needed to be told again,” he says.
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