How did you come to know our lord and savior, Count Orlok? If you're of a certain age, your first exposure might have come from the "SpongeBob SquarePants" episode "Graveyard Shift," in which the rascally vampire kept secretly flickering the lights during the night shift at the Krusty Krab. Or maybe you watched "Shadow of the Vampire," E. Elias Merhige's darkly comedic 2000 fictional account about the making of F.W. Murnau's 1922 German Expressionist classic "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." Or perhaps you even saw Murnau's unauthorized "Dracula" adaptation itself or Werner Herzog's 1979 remake "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (which did away with any pretenses and just referred to Orlok as Count Dracula).
Whatever the case, Orlok has sunk his fangs deep into our collective pop-cultural consciousness these last 100-plus years. With his pallid visage, sunken eyes, and bald head, he just stands out from all those other blood-suckers, straddling the...
Whatever the case, Orlok has sunk his fangs deep into our collective pop-cultural consciousness these last 100-plus years. With his pallid visage, sunken eyes, and bald head, he just stands out from all those other blood-suckers, straddling the...
- 12/3/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Harry Styles nearly followed in the footsteps of Robert Pattinson and Anya Taylor-Joy.
In a lengthy, incredibly illuminating profile of director Robert Eggers for The New Yorker, it was revealed that Harry Styles was scheduled to be a part of Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy. But, alas, it wasn’t meant to be.
The article says that Styles had to drop out due to scheduling concerns. He appeared briefly in Marvel Studios’ “Eternals” last year and has a role in Olivia Wilde’s upcoming “Booksmart” follow-up “Don’t Worry Darling” alongside Florence Pugh and Chris Pine. Styles is releasing a new album in May and then going on an international tour, which may have conflicted with the intended “Nosferatu” shooting dates.
According to the New Yorker profile, Eggers’ cinematographer Jarin Blaschke had already enrolled his daughter in school in Prague when Styles dropped out.
It’s unclear if the project,...
In a lengthy, incredibly illuminating profile of director Robert Eggers for The New Yorker, it was revealed that Harry Styles was scheduled to be a part of Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy. But, alas, it wasn’t meant to be.
The article says that Styles had to drop out due to scheduling concerns. He appeared briefly in Marvel Studios’ “Eternals” last year and has a role in Olivia Wilde’s upcoming “Booksmart” follow-up “Don’t Worry Darling” alongside Florence Pugh and Chris Pine. Styles is releasing a new album in May and then going on an international tour, which may have conflicted with the intended “Nosferatu” shooting dates.
According to the New Yorker profile, Eggers’ cinematographer Jarin Blaschke had already enrolled his daughter in school in Prague when Styles dropped out.
It’s unclear if the project,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has announced that it will honor Doug Jones with the inaugural The Chair Award at its annual awards ceremony taking place at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 19.
The award will be presented by the actor’s Star Trek: Discovery co-star Sonequa Martin-Green.
Over the last 35 years, Jones has become known for his ability to tackle and breathe life into extraordinary cinematic characters, realized through the masterful application of makeup and prosthetics. He’s most closely associated with two-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro, having portrayed Amphibian Man in his 2017 Best Picture winner The Shape of Water, Pan and Pale Man in his breakthrough Oscar winner Pan’s Labyrinth, and blue fish-man Abe Sapien in both Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
“Talk to any number of the top make-up artists and hair stylists in our industry and they will tell you Doug Jones...
The award will be presented by the actor’s Star Trek: Discovery co-star Sonequa Martin-Green.
Over the last 35 years, Jones has become known for his ability to tackle and breathe life into extraordinary cinematic characters, realized through the masterful application of makeup and prosthetics. He’s most closely associated with two-time Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro, having portrayed Amphibian Man in his 2017 Best Picture winner The Shape of Water, Pan and Pale Man in his breakthrough Oscar winner Pan’s Labyrinth, and blue fish-man Abe Sapien in both Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
“Talk to any number of the top make-up artists and hair stylists in our industry and they will tell you Doug Jones...
- 1/25/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
A while back, it was announced that David Lee Fisher was creating an innovative reimagining of Nosferatu. Now we know who'll be playing the iconic movie monster.
According to Variety, Fisher has tapped famous German expressionist Doug Jones to inhabit the role. Jones is known for his work in Guillermo del Toro films like Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth. He also worked with Fisher the last time the director remade a classic silent horror film.
Jones is certainly no stranger to donning prosthetics and transforming into strange creatures, and there's perhaps no more beloved a creature in cinematic history than Nosferatu. The character's debut in the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu is considered to be the first ever vampire movie. To this day, it's considered a horror classic.
What Fisher intends to do with this remake is really rather quite ingenious. According to Variety, the director "is creating a remix of the...
According to Variety, Fisher has tapped famous German expressionist Doug Jones to inhabit the role. Jones is known for his work in Guillermo del Toro films like Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth. He also worked with Fisher the last time the director remade a classic silent horror film.
Jones is certainly no stranger to donning prosthetics and transforming into strange creatures, and there's perhaps no more beloved a creature in cinematic history than Nosferatu. The character's debut in the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu is considered to be the first ever vampire movie. To this day, it's considered a horror classic.
What Fisher intends to do with this remake is really rather quite ingenious. According to Variety, the director "is creating a remix of the...
- 4/14/2016
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
He's played Abe Sapien in "Hellboy," the Pale Man in "Pan's Labyrinth," and the Silver Surfer in the "Fantastic Four" sequel. Now, Doug Jones is set to take on another iconic character.
Jones has scored the title role in "Nosferatu," David Lee Fisher's upcoming remake of F.W. Murnau's iconic 1922 silent German expressionist horror film - considered the first true vampire film ever made.
The original, unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," follows a young woman's supernatural quest to save her true love's soul and the entire world from the shadow of infernal darkness.
The film will boast a mix of live-action elements combined with colorized digital backgrounds recreated from the original film. Emrhys Cooper, Joely Fisher, Sarah Carter and Jake Turner also star.
Source: Variety...
Jones has scored the title role in "Nosferatu," David Lee Fisher's upcoming remake of F.W. Murnau's iconic 1922 silent German expressionist horror film - considered the first true vampire film ever made.
The original, unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," follows a young woman's supernatural quest to save her true love's soul and the entire world from the shadow of infernal darkness.
The film will boast a mix of live-action elements combined with colorized digital backgrounds recreated from the original film. Emrhys Cooper, Joely Fisher, Sarah Carter and Jake Turner also star.
Source: Variety...
- 4/14/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
One of my favorite vampires films of all time is the very first one ever made, 1922's F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, which features an insanely creepy vampire by the name of Count Orlock. Murnau originally wanted to make an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but the Stoker estate shut him down, so he basically made his own unauthorized version of the story. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to check it out. It’s a beautifully terrifying film.
Director David Lee Fisher wants to do what he calls a “remix” of the movie, which will star none other than Doug Jones, who you know from films such as Hellboy, The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Pan's Labyrinth, to play Count Orlack. According to Jones, this is a role that he has always wanted to play, and there’s no doubt that he would be amazing.
Director David Lee Fisher wants to do what he calls a “remix” of the movie, which will star none other than Doug Jones, who you know from films such as Hellboy, The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Pan's Labyrinth, to play Count Orlack. According to Jones, this is a role that he has always wanted to play, and there’s no doubt that he would be amazing.
- 12/1/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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