Nicholas Holt says RENFIELD should “divide audiences and whether they’d be laughing or screaming in certain moments”
“There’s a there’s many different ways he can be played.”
Hitting theaters soon, horror comedy Renfield focuses on the long-suffering servant of Dracula—as he deals with the complications. The movie stars Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies and X-Men: First Class) in the title role. Nicolas Cage plays the irascible boss (you know—Count Dracula). Awkwafina plays Renfield’s love-interest, touchy traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
At a red carpet premiere of another film, Renfield star Hoult was asked about what attracted him to play the horror comedy movie’s title role:
“I was like, Oh, this is a weird, weird guy. There’s a there’s many different ways he can be played. But then it was also like just like a fun, different original script. And I was like, I don’t know how this is going to turn out, but it felt like it would divide audiences and whether they’d be laughing or screaming in certain moments.”
Scheduled to be released April 14, 2023, Renfield also includes Ben Schwartz as a mob enforcer, Adrian Martinez as another traffic cop and Quincy’s co-worker, Shohreh Aghdashloo as a mob boss, Bess Rous as a support group member, and Brandon Scott Jones as a support group leader.
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The upcoming horror comedy movie Renfield finds Count Dracula’s manservant taking on a new perspective in modern-day New Orleans—even attending a support group—-when he falls in love with a traffic cop. (Thanks to the trailer—which you can watch below—the film looks amazing.) The movie, based on an original idea by Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, is directed by Chris McKay from a screenplay by Ryan Ridley.
Renfield | Official Trailer | Universal Pictures
JoBlo says that Kirkman talked about Renfield with Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin’s podcast Fatman Beyond. “We’re doing this cool movie for Universal that's a focus on Renfield. It’s a story about him being Dracula's henchman and how shitty a job that is. It’s a fun, extremely violent comedy, because I’ve got a crutch and it’s violence.” (Renfield movie will be a fun, extremely violent comedy, says Robert Kirkman)