Nightingale is a 2025 American superhero film inspired by the Elder Scrolls video game franchise. The film was directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, and Michael Dougherty from a screenplay and story by del Toro and Snyder. The first installment in the Icelandic Warrior film series, it stars Gal Gadot in the titular vampire role along with Bella Thorne, Cillian Murphy, Antje Traue, Christian Bale, Everleigh McDonell, Lexi Rabe, Harry Lennix, Dominic Purcell, Morgan Freeman, Graham McTavish, and Mads Mikkelsen. It follows Brynhild as she must protect the world from the evil vampire Dracula, who was ruled out as dead for many years. She recruits her long-time friends Garen Marethi (Murphy) and Fura Bloodmouth (Traue), as well as, reluctantly, her family (Thorne, McDonell, and Rabe), to take down the dangerous warlord. Nightingale was released in theaters on February 18th, 2025; it was a box-office success, grossing $869 million worldwide, and received widespread acclaim from critics and audiences, who praised its acting (especially Gadot, Thorne, Murphy, Traue, McTavish, and Mikkelsen), direction, screenplay, story, action sequences, visual effects, and musical score. The film's critical and financial success reevaluated the popularization of the monster genre, and is now widely considered one of the greatest vampire movies of all time. A sequel is in development.
