Universal Pictures has debuted the first trailer for Chris McKay's Renfield, which stars Nicolas Hoult (X-Men: First Class) as Dracula's beleaguered henchman, and Nicolas Cage (Mandy) as the lord of vampires himself.
While this clearly falls into the horror comedy category, we recently learned that the movie has been given an R-rating, and the teaser does not hold back on the gore!
The clever first-look finds Renfield joining a group therapy session where people go to vent about their horrible bosses - but the others are unaware that their new member is doing the bidding of an actual personification of evil!
Check out the red and green band trailers below along with a new poster, and let us know what you think.
Renfield is set to hit theaters on April 14, 2023, and will focus on the title character, who has "grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula’s lackey. The henchman finds a new lease on life and maybe even redemption when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina).”
Ryan Ridley penned the script, which is based on an original story outline from Robert Kirkman. McKay will also produce alongside Samantha Nisenboim and Skybound Entertainment’s film team of Kirkman, David Alpert, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst.
In Bram Stoker's classic novel, R.M. Renfield was introduced as one of Dr. Seward's inmates before his backstory revealed that he was actually Dracula's attorney and Jonathan Harker's predecessor. Driven mad by the evil Count, Renfield became his willing acolyte, believing he would one day be given the gift of eternal life.
The character has appeared in most adaptations of the tale, and has been played by the likes of Dwight Frye in 1931's Dracula and Tom Waits in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 version.
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