Oscar winner Nicolas Cage will painting a really completely different model of Dracula within the horror comedy Renfield.
Hollywood legend Nicolas Cage believes it was solely a matter of time earlier than he performed The Prince of Darkness, Dracula. Which he’ll do, little doubt with aplomb, within the upcoming horror comedy Renfield. Speaking with Total Film, Cage revealed the deep connection he feels he has at all times had with the vampire lord, and has at all times felt that he would fang-up as the long-lasting character ultimately.
“The idea of Dracula, in itself, is a problem. It’s been carried out so many instances already. It’s been carried out very properly and it’s additionally been carried out not very properly. I actually admire Christopher Lee and Frank Langella and Bela Lugosi and Gary [Oldman]. But I wished to see if I may carry one thing recent to the character. And I additionally form of at all times knew I needed to do it in some unspecified time in the future.”
Cage reportedly took the position of Dracula in Renfield immediately following his first assembly with director Chris McKay, crafting all of the substances wanted for Dracula, including the voice and mannerisms, by their second dialog.
“I went again to Christopher Lee, when it comes to his method of talking, however that was actually solely a place to begin. I knew Christopher. I did a small scene with him in Season of the Witch, and I favored him very a lot. We had a number of good conversations, and he jogged my memory fairly a little bit of my father, August. So from then on, my dad kind of turned the primary inspiration for me.”
Aside from utilizing each Hammer Horror icon Christopher Lee and his personal father, Cage revealed that he approached Dracula’s want for blood as if it had been “an addiction to alcohol or heroin.” Which actually seems like the way in which Nicolas Cage would do it.
“More importantly than borrowing from my father, or from Christopher Lee, it’s actually concerning the psyche of the character. An habit to blood shouldn’t be in contrast to an habit to alcohol or heroin or intercourse, so I considered how that lust can drive somebody into darker dimensions.”
Renfield is Due to Land in Theaters in April
Renfield is a contemporary monster story of Dracula’s loyal servant. Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to historical past’s most narcissistic boss, Dracula (Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage). Renfield is pressured to obtain his grasp’s prey and do his each bidding, regardless of how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is able to see if there’s a life outdoors the shadow of The Count. If solely he may determine the best way to finish his co-dependency.
Directed by Chris McKay (The Tomorrow War, The LEGO Batman Movie) from a screenplay by Ryan Ridley (Ghosted, Rick & Morty), and based mostly on an unique thought by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Renfield finds the lesser-known R. M. Renfield, who first appeared in Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula, immediately discovering a brand new lease on life in modern-day New Orleans after falling in love with a feisty however perennially aggressive visitors cop.
Alongside Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult, Renfield stars Awkwafina (The Farewell, Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings), Ben Schwartz (Sonic the Hedgehog, The Afterparty), and Adrian Martinez (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Focus), in addition to Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog, The Expanse), Bess Rous (Ghostbusters), James Moses Black (Lansky), Caroline Williams (Ten Minutes to Midnight), and Brandon Scott Jones (Isn’t It Romantic).
Renfield is scheduled to be land in theaters on April 14, 2023.