By Having worked with filmmaker Robert Eggers on both “The Lighthouse” and “The Northman,” actor Willem Dafoe is quite used to the filmmaker’s penchant for unique visuals.
From the grainy black-and-white of the former to the latter with its various bits of wild imagery including its nude volcano fight, Eggers certainly knows how to make the most of film’s visual medium.
Speaking with IndieWire recently out promoting “Poor Things,” Dafoe touched upon his recent work on Eggers’ “Nosferatu” remake and praised the film’s “extraordinary” visuals.
Dafoe, who plays Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz in the film, says:
“[Eggers] gets better and better and better, gets more articulate, more on top of it. He’s so clear when he works. It opens in December of next year, which is a long time away.
Trying to be an optimist, I think the studio must feel very strong about it, because that’s quite a tough slot, so I’m excited about that. I saw some footage when we were shooting, and I can honestly say, visually, it was like unlike anything I have seen…The look of it and how it was shot was extraordinary.
The project marks Dafoe’s second involvement with a Nosferatu-themed project after 2000’s “Shadow of the Vampire” in which he played actor Max Schreck who played the vampiric Count Orlok in the original film.
In this take, Bill Skarsgård will be playing Count Orlok in the film alongside actors Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney, and Ralph Ineson.
“Nosferatu” releases in theaters on December 25th 2024.
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