‘Renfield’, starring Nicolas Cage’s Dracula, launches its first hilarious trailer

With a splatter of blood on Nicholas Hoult’s face, then announced Universal Pictures the imminent arrival of the first trailer for ‘Renfield’, breakthrough next to which the logo and poster for this Dracula spin-off comic. Holt embodies the character that gives the film its name, a poor devil who meets one of the most famous leeches in literary and cinematic history. In some other version of the Bram Stoker classic, like that wonderful film directed by Francis Ford Coppola; This meeting makes him hopelessly “crazy” and makes him lavish a series of terrible omens. as they eat parasites to absorb their life energysomething we won’t see in this new tape.

Our first Renfield poster!
AND YES THAT’S NIC CAGE AS A MOTHER FUCKING DRACULA!!! #renfieldfilm pic.twitter.com/e1XUQSDrsb

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* “Our first ‘Renfield’ poster! AND YES, THAT’S NIC CAGE AS FUCKING DRACULA!!!”

But, from what we see in the trailer released by the aforementioned study, in the case of this proposal Based on an idea by ‘The Walking Dead’ screenwriter Robert Kirkman; Renfield, who served under the iconic vampire for centuries, he’s more than sick of being Dracula’s lackey. Then this servant’s life changes along with a new opportunity that could lead to his redemption: Renfield falls head over heels for feisty traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina).. To play the legendary count we find Nicolas Cage, an actor who completes the cast of this film together with the aforementioned Awkwafina, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Bess Rous, James Moses Black and Ben Schwartz.

This “one-of-a-kind” adaptation of Stoker’s play will premiere in the United States on April 14tha film that will present “something new” in the version of Dracula portrayed by Cage, an actor who in his day claimed to have focused on giving the mundane vampire a spin. “I want it to stand out in a unique way from what we’ve already seen. So I thought about focusing on the movement of the character. I watched “Evil” and thought what Annabelle Wallis does with those moves, or Sadako in “Ringu”. I want to see what we can explore with movement and voice.”.

A modern approach

Although we have seen more or less Renfield in numerous film adaptations, in the original novel he is nothing more than a secondary character, patient of a psychiatric hospital who survives by eating insects and mice and who falls into Dracula’s canvas before his promise of eternal life. By contrast, in “Renfield,” a film set in present-day New Orleans, said servant intends to end the codependent relationship he shares with the count.

Directed by Chris McKay (“The War of Tomorrow”) and written by Kirkman and Ryan Ridley; this film is described as a “violent comedy” or “bizarre” horror film.and is compared to the TV mockumentary ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ or the horror-comedy classic ‘An American Werewolf in London’.