{"id":119043,"date":"2025-01-06T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/06\/harry-styles-almost-starred-in-this-current-box-office-hit\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:04:31","slug":"harry-styles-almost-starred-in-this-current-box-office-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/06\/harry-styles-almost-starred-in-this-current-box-office-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles almost starred in *this* current box office hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-03\/Getty_harry%20styles%20at%20premiere_010325.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Harry Styles<\/strong>&#8216; movie career has been hit or miss: He got mixed reviews for <em>The Policeman<\/em>, while his other film that year, <em>Don&#8217;t Worry Darling<\/em>, was trashed by critics. His other roles \u2014 in <em>Dunkirk<\/em> and <em>The Eternals<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 were just cameos. But if things had gone differently, he&#8217;d be starring in a film that&#8217;s currently #3 at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Internet sleuths have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/04\/04\/robert-eggerss-historical-visions-go-mainstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found a 2022 article<\/a> describing how Harry was going to star in the 2024 vampire flick <em>Nosferatu<\/em>, which has made about $58 million so far and holds an 85% score on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/nosferatu_2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. He would have co-starred opposite <strong>Anya Taylor-Joy<\/strong>, but both left the project over scheduling conflicts; he was busy working on <em>Harry&#8217;s House<\/em> at the time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nosferatu<\/em> director <strong>Robert Eggers<\/strong> told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/features\/general\/robert-eggers-nosferatu-remake-cursed-harry-styles-not-playing-vampire-1234715995\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>IndieWire<\/em><\/a> that Harry dropping out of the project had left it in limbo. &#8220;It\u2019s fallen apart twice,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I\u2019ve been trying to get the word out because the word did carry that Harry Styles was going to be in the movie. I just want to be clear that he was going to be Hutter and not Nosferatu himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Harry wasn&#8217;t going to play the vampire, but rather Thomas Hutter, who&#8217;s one of the good guys. That role was instead played by <strong>Nicholas Hoult<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Egger&#8217;s film, which had been in development since 2015, finally got underway in September 2022 when <strong>Lily-Rose Depp<\/strong> was announced to play the role that Taylor-Joy was to have played, and <strong>Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/strong> was cast as the vampire, Court Orlok. Hoult&#8217;s casting was announced a month later. The movie opened on Dec. 25.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic Harry Styles&#8216; movie career has been hit or miss: He got mixed reviews for The Policeman, while his other film that year, Don&#8217;t Worry Darling, was trashed by critics. His other roles \u2014 in Dunkirk and The Eternals\u00a0\u2014 were just cameos. 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