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.