“The Queen’s Gambit” star Anya Taylor-Joy and director Robert Eggers are teaming up once again for a horror movie, this time for the remake of “Nosferatu”, the 1922 silent horror film that loosely adapted Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”.
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The duo first worked together in the 2015 period supernatural horror film “The Witch”, which marked the Taylor-Joy’s film debut and Eggers’ feature directorial debut.
“All my friends are always like, ‘What are you doing?!? Take ... a ... break’. But the roles are too good. I wouldn’t be able to deal with it if I didn’t say yes. I wouldn’t cope. I’d rather just go for it and do my best,” the Golden Globe winner told the Los Angeles Times.
Taylor-Joy recently worked with Eggers in the Viking revenge drama “The Northman”, also starring Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard, which is currently in post-production.
Eggers’ version of “Nosferatu” was first announced in 2015, just after the premiere of “The Witch” at Sundance Film Festival.
Taylor-Joy is next set to star in the psychological horror film “Last Night in Soho”, directed by Edgar Wright; “The Menu” by Mark Mylod; George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa”, and the thriller “Laughter in the Dark” with “The Queen Gambit” co-creator Scott Frank.
