Also ending up in the remake cauldron is. Nosferatu, the celebrated and beloved silent film directed by German Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1922 and starring Max Schreck. In the daunting task of directing the remake of such an unmatched cinematic work will be American Robert Eggers, screenwriter and director of a couple of shorts and the recent horror film The Witch (2015).
Nosferatu by Murnau, considered the masterpiece of expressionist cinema as well as a landmark of horror cinema, is based on the novel "Dracula" written by Bram Stoker in 1897. The German film already enjoys a remarkable remake made in 1979 by Werner Herzog, entitled Nosferatu the Vampyre and featuring Klaus Kinski in the role of Count Dracula.
Like Herzog's remake, Robert Eggers' remake will be an adaptation of Murnau's film and not Stoker's novel.
