My position, which I talk about a bit in my review (Nosferastivus for the Rest of Us), is that the IP is cursed. It was made and sold to a 1920's German audience that connected with the theme of a hook-nosed, Jewish-coded outsider bringing pestilence and rats (both additions for the film, absent in the original Dracula novel) and coming for their fatherland and white, German women.

So while I get why a filmmaker might have connected with this as an early inspirational piece of art, it's also CURSED as fuck, lol. And I think the curse got Eggers in the form of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, bc what in the actual FUCK was he doing???

He's British!!! How does he not have a passable British accent? Why was more than 40% of his dialogue ADRd? (Answer: listen to the lines that weren't ADRd, and you'll see why).

I didn't think Nosferatu had much to say, which is weird bc The Lighthouse and The Northman both have SO much to say, and interesting ways to say it.

But Eggers somehow wound up with ATJ, and I think it's the Nosferatu curse.