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Robert Eggers Reveals the Ghastly True Tales Behind His New ‘Nosferatu’
'The Witch’ filmmaker on his updated adaptation of the silent film: “Even as recently as the early 2000s, there have been vampire occurrences.”www.vanityfair.com
Bill Skarsgård said you wrote a short story for him that explained Orlok’s origin as a sorcerer. Is that too much of a spoiler?
That’s fine to say. Yeah, in order to make this story my own and integrate all the stuff that I had been reading—and to also understand the characters better—I wrote this novella that created a lot of backstory for all the characters. It also had tons of scenes I knew would never be in the movie, just to flesh out the character dynamics and flesh out the relationships. There were a couple appendices, and one of these was an Orlok origin story.
Is this anything you would intend to publish?
[Laughs.] It's very poorly written. I was trying to do this like a writing style from the period, which I think... There's a reason why I make films and why I'm not a novelist.