Renfield Gets His Day …. Well, Maybe

 Universal Pictures is bringing together alumni actors Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage in the comedic horror film, Renfield.

Hoult will play Renfield, who as you remember from previous films is always portrayed as the insanely creepy, vermin devouring minion of Count Dracula.  However, this film will examine Renfield in a modern day setting and his attempt at a new life with love interest Rebecca Quincy, a traffic officer, which will be quite a feat since the monster who abandoned him changed him into something akin to a ghoul.

Count Dracula is played by Nicolas Cage.

Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage

 

 

Additional cast in the 2023 film are Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Bess Rous and Awkwafina.

Chris McKay the director of Amazon’s The Tomorrow War and The Lego Batman Movie will also direct Renfield.

Proposed release date: April 14, 2023

Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage also starred together in the 2005 film, The Weather Man.

Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage

Correction:  

There are earlier films that do not portray Renfield as a crazed lunatic, such as in the 1922 silent film  Nosferatu:  A Symphony of Horror by F. W. Murnau,  the 1931 film Dracula of Tod Browning , which was  the first talkie horror picture by Universal , and the  1931 Spanish film Dracula of George Melford. In these films Renfield played the prominent role of Jonathan Hacker and was intent on stopping Dracula terror on English society.

So it is possible that McKay’s Renfield will be a hero and get the girl.