Renfield trailer: Nicolas Cage Dracula comedy reaches theatres in April

Yesterday, Universal Pictures showed off the title logo for their upcoming Dracula comedy Renfield, starring Nicolas Cage as Dracula and Nicholas Hoult as his titular lackey. Showing that logo video was a strong indication that they would be releasing a trailer soon – and they have indeed released a trailer very soon after that video. The trailer for Renfield is now online, and can be seen in the embed above!

Renfield is set to reach theatres on April 14th.

Based on a treatment written by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Renfield was 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.

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 are joined in the cast by 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.

Renfield has been rated R for bloody violence, some gore, language throughout, and some drug use.

What did you think of the Renfield trailer? Will you be watching this movie in theatres this April? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I will definitely be checking this one out.