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Nicolas Cage Stayed in Character as Dracula on Renfield Set
According to director Chris McKay, "Whatever scene we did, he would still be 100% living in that attitude after we stopped shooting." Nicolas Cage Stayed in Character as Dracula on Renfield Set Carys Anderson
Nicolas Cage to Sink His Teeth into Role of Dracula in New Movie Renfield
Fang-tastic news: Nicolas Cage will star as the vampire Dracula in the new Universal monster movie Renfield. It’s named for R. M. Renfield, an inmate at a lunatic asylum who becomes the count’s henchman in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, Renfield will be played by Nicholas Hoult (The Great), with direction from Chris McKay (The Tomorrow War). Like vampires themselves, plot details are being kept in the dark, and it’s unclear how the film will build a story around Renfield, or whether we’ll see other original characters like Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, or the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing. But Renfield‘s script comes from comedy vet Ryan Ridle (Rick and Morty), from an outline by The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman, so b...
