Renfield: Nicolas Cage’s Dracula pictured on set of Universal horror comedy

Last Updated on March 24, 2022

We’ve been intensely curious to see what Nicolas Cage is going to look like while playing Dracula in the upcoming Universal Monsters horror comedy Renfield, and now we know! Cage and his co-star Nicholas Hoult, who is playing Renfield, have been spotted on set, and People has shared images of the actors in costume! Cage’s Dracula looks just as amazing and odd as I have been hoping. Click the link or the Twitter embed below to get a look at the latest version of the classic characters Dracula and Renfield.

Universal Pictures has announced an April 14, 2023 theatrical release for the film.

Based on a treatment written by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Renfield is being directed by Chris McKay (The Tomorrow War) from a screenplay by Ryan Ridley (Rick and Morty). In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, 

R.M. Renfield was an inmate at a lunatic asylum who was thought to be suffering from delusions but actually is a servant of Dracula. Plot details of the movie weren’t announced, but it’s believed to take place during the present day and is not a period piece.

In this film, Renfield has been serving the bloodsucker for centuries, and now he

has grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula’s lackey. The henchman finds a new lease on life life and maybe even redemption when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.

Cage and Hoult’s co-stars include Awkwafina as traffic cop Rebecca Quincy, Adrian Martinez as her traffic cop partner Chris, Shohreh Aghdashloo as a feared crime lord named Ella, Bess Rous as “people in toxic relationships” support group member Caitlyn, and James Moses Black and Ben Schwartz in unspecified roles.

While Universal is developing several monster projects, they were excited to get Renfield into production first. According to Deadline, the story’s “mix of humor and action was something the studio was looking for because so many of the other properties have more of a horror element to them.” 

Kirkman, who has described the film as “a violent comedy”, is producing Renfield with David Alpert, Bryan Furst, and Sean Furst of Skybound Entertainment, alongside McKay’s producing partner Samantha Nisenboim.

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