Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNicholas Hoult is set to star in Universal’s “Renfield,” a monster movie centering on Dracula’s notorious lackey.Chris McKay, the filmmaker behind “The Tomorrow War” and “The Lego Batman Movie,” is directing and producing “Renfield,” which serves as an origin story for Dracula’s unhinged henchman.
Based on an original script by Robert Kirkman, the screenplay will be written by Ryan Ridley (“Rick and Morty”).In Bram Stoker’s 1897 horror novel “Dracula,” R.M.
Renfield was an inmate at a lunatic asylum. He was thought to be suffering from delusions that compelled him to eat live creatures in the hopes of obtaining immortality, until it’s later revealed that he’s under the influence of one Count Dracula..
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