The Nosferatu director acknowledged the benefits of a pre-existent IP but wants his future film to be an original.

The anglophile American film director discusses his ultra-gothic, jumpscare-filled reworking of the ultimate vampire movie

Nosferatu director Robert Eggers has revealed that he once started working on a movie adaptation of Frankenstein, but stopped after two weeks.

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Werner Herzog 's version is less enamored with his powers and more interested in his melancholic spiritual plight, making his Dracula ( Klaus Kinski) arguably the most vulnerable version. This is where Eggers' version is superior,

Robert Eggers reflects on Nosferatu’s box office success and teases plans for his next film, continuing his trend of bold storytelling in horror.

In fact, when somebody else does a movie similar to one of their films, like Joker, you might call it Scorsese-esque. Or, when somebody makes a violent movie with witty dialogue, it might be considered Tarantino-esque.