MOVIE NEWS – It was even suggested that there is no need for another Dracula film, director Robert Eggers and the title character Bill Skarsgard feared that after the previous masterpieces about the Transylvanian count with significant canines, they they can hardly kick the ball.
It’s true, the first Nosferatu film, Murnau’s 1922 adaptation, is required material in every film school, and then there’s Werner Herzog’s brilliant play with Klaus Kinski and With Isabelle Adjani (1979), but Francis Ford Coppola also exposed himself (1992), with Gary Oldman as the immortal bloodsucker.
“Robert /Eggers/ and I were hesitant at the beginning that we were the ones doing the grief, Skarsgard explained to Vanity Fair. “What’s another Nosferatu for?” Won’t that be too much trouble for us? The pressure was huge on us, after all, we wanted to make a masterpiece. But this cinema still has its right to exist, because it is a completely new interpretation.”
Not only the story comes into a new light, but also the character of Dracula himself, who appears in the film as Count Orlock. This is why you can’t see the count in any of the trailers, you can only infer that he looks horrible from the reactions of the other characters. “Our Dracula is very different from all of its predecessors,” Skarsgard told Entertainment Weekly. – A horror with a much more complex appearance than the also not simple Pennywise last time. (The actor refers to the Stephen King adaptation called The, in which he played the killer clown, also significantly transformed. – ed.) – I agree that we don’t show Orlock in the trailers, the audience will only he meets her at the cinema. The film itself works similarly: the vampire lurks in the dark for a long time and only shows himself at a certain point in the story.”
(Nosferatu – domestic release: January 2, 2025.)
