Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp to Lead Robert Eggers’ ‘Werwulf’

It’s a “Nosferatu” reunion! Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who starred in director Robert Eggers‘ fashionable vampire hit, is ready to re-team with the filmmaker for his subsequent movie, “Werwulf.” Lily-Rose Depp, who led the 2024 gothic horror movie, can also be in talks to affix the mission.

Eggers will direct the werewolf horror function from a script he co-wrote with Sjón (the duo beforehand collaborated on 2022’s “The Northman” script). The movie is slated for a Christmas Day 2026 launch in North America.

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title are producing alongside Eggers and Sjón, whereas Maiden Voyage’s Chris and Eleanor Columbus are serving as govt producers.

Focus Options most just lately financed and launched Eggers’ critically-acclaimed gothic horror movie “Nosferatu.” Eggers and Focus have partnered on all his movies so far, additionally together with “The Northman,” “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse, for which Focus dealt with worldwide distribution by means of Common Worldwide.

A reimagining of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent German Expressionist movie, “Nosferatu” stars Depp as a younger girl who turns into the item of want for the terrifying vampire Depend Orlok (Invoice Skarsgård). Taylor-Johnson seems as Friedrich Harding, a vampire skeptic. Nicholas Hoult, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe additionally star. The movie was a hit on the field workplace, sucking up an enormous $40 million Christmas debut, practically double its pre-release expectations. It in the end grossed over $181 million worldwide.

Taylor-Johnson most just lately appeared in “28 Years Later.” Earlier credit embrace “Kraven the Hunter,” “The Fall Man,” “Bullet Practice,” “Tenet,” “Nocturnal Animals” and “Godzilla.”

Depp’s extra credit embrace “Wolf,” “Silent Evening,” “Voyagers,” “The Dancer,” “The King” and HBO’s “The Idol.”

Nexus Level Information was first to report the casting.