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Javier Botet Wants to Play Nosferatu and That Probably Needs to Happen

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6 years ago

September 7, 2018

Even before Bela Lugosi graced the screen as Dracula, we met Count Orlok, unforgettably played by Max Schreck in 1922’s Nosferatu. Subsequently, Klaus Kinski took over the role in Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre, released in 1979, and the character will soon be played by Doug Jones in a new film. But man, can you even imagine Javier Botet in the role?!

For Botet, the creature performer who has nestled his way into our nightmares in films like [REC], Crimson Peak, Mama and IT, Nosferatu is a dream role, he tells Broke Horror Fan.

“I would love to play Nosferatu,” Botet just told the site. “I would love to be in a James Bond movie. My crazy dream is to be the Joker; a dark, dark, very creepy Joker.”

Botet is PERFECT for the role of Nosferatu, a role he was probably born to play. So here’s hoping Robert Eggers (The Witch) is listening… if he’s still even making his own Nosferatu.

The 1922 silent movie followed the vampire Count Orlok, who wants to buy a house in Germany and becomes enamored with the real-estate agent’s wife.

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‘The Invisible Man 2’ – Elisabeth Moss Says the Sequel Is Closer Than Ever to Happening

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2 hours ago

April 25, 2024

John Squires

Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.

First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.

Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.

Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.

Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.

“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”

She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”

At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.

Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.