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

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 government producers.

Focus Options most not too long ago financed and launched Eggers’ critically-acclaimed gothic horror movie “Nosferatu.” Eggers and Focus have partnered on all his movies to this point, additionally together with “The Northman,” “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse, for which Focus dealt with worldwide distribution by way 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 thing 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 successful on the field workplace, sucking up an enormous $40 million Christmas debut, almost double its pre-release expectations. It in the end grossed over $181 million worldwide.

Taylor-Johnson most not too long ago 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.