Doug Jones is the guy you look to when you want to bring to life the sort of lithe, fantastic creatures that usually only exist in dark fairy tales or science fiction. The actor — whose immersive and often spooky performances are more recognizable than his face or name — was the Pale Man and the Faun in Pan’s Labyrinth and Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies. He was also the head of the super spooky gang of skeletal ghouls in “Hush,”one of the best episodes of Buffy of the Vampire Slayer. Jones is capable of contorting his body in all kinds of creepy and unnatural ways, which is likely why he has been (perfectly) cast as the titular vampire in a remake of Nosferatu.

Variety is reporting that this interpretation of the German expressionist classic will be directed by David Lee Fisher and will apparently walk the line between remake and remix. Fisher plans to use footage from F.W. Murnau’s silent classic and mix it with new footage

Live action [will be] combined with colorized digital backgrounds from the original film.

The movie seems as though it will be a nice companion to the 1921 original, and with Jones as the lead, pointy-toothed vampire, you can’t go wrong.

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