UPDATE, Sept. 30: In an extended second trailer, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu teases an entranced Lily Rose-Depp, enamored and enticed by death itself. “I’d never been so happy,” she utters with zealous tears running down her face, as viewers glimpse shadowy outlines of the eponymous vampire lurking by doorways and windows alike.
ORIGINAL, June 24 : Focus Features on Monday morning debuted the first trailer for one of the year’s most anticipated films: the gothic horror Nosferatu from filmmaker Robert Eggers ( The Lighthouse ), which is slated for release on Wednesday, December 25, 2024. Written and directed by Eggers, Nosferatu is billed as a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Lily-Rose Depp) and the terrifying vampire (Bill Skarsgård) infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Others in the star-studded cast include Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe.
Nosferatu marks Eggers’ second film for Focus Features, on the heels of his Viking epic The Northman , co-financed by Focus and New Regency, which grossed $70 million worldwide. Eggers produced alongside Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus, Jeff Robinov, and John Graham. Previously, Columbus served as an EP on Eggers’ The Witch and The Lighthouse .
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