Nicolas Cage's Renfield: Release Date, Plot, and Cast -

Renfield, as you may know, is an upcoming American dark fantasy horror-comedy film directed by Chris McKay. It is written by Ryan Ridley and is based on an original pitch by Robert Kirkman. The film stars Nicholas Hoult as Renfield, and Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula. There have’t been much updates on this project since last year but now there are some. Here’s all we know about it.

Renfield Release Date and Cast

According to latest report by Deadline, Renfield is all set to hit theaters April 14, 2023. It is little over a year away and as of now it is in the production phase with the following cast members:

Nicholas Hoult as Renfield
Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula, a vampire and Renfield’s boss
Awkwafina as Rebecca Quincy, a traffic cop and Renfield’s love-interest
Ben Schwartz as a mobster
Adrian Martinez as Chris, a traffic cop
Shohreh Aghdashloo as Ella, a crime boss
Bess Rous as Caitlyn, a support group member
James Moses Black in an undisclosed role

Renfield Plot

Renfield is going to be a horror comedy vampire film featuring Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula. Nicholas Hoult will serve as his frustrated assistant, Renfield who decides to leave his line of work after falling in love. The film will showcase the classic struggle between an employer and and employee with supernatural and comedic elements.

Universal Pictures tried to replicate the shared universe formula of Marvel and DC but failed terribly. The Mummy (2017) was meant to be the first film in their dark universe which included Dracula storylines as well. But owing to its disastrous performance both critically and commercially, the shared universe plans were cancelled. Now Universal Pictures is going back to telling individual stories and Renfield is going to be the first of them.

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Founder and regular content publisher of High on Cinema. A passionate cinema enthusiast with a keen interest in the drama, fantasy and superhero genre as well as parallel cinema. Terribly terrified by the horror genre, he refrains from even trying the spooky cinema. Having studied Film Appreciation, he has a keen eye for the technicalities involved in a particular piece of cinema and tries to judge a film as open mindedly as possible.

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