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Renfield Logo Revealed By Universal, Trailer Feels Imminent

Published Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:49:08 -0600

Renfield has a new logo, as the Universal Monsters film debuted the below title treatment. It rules, or as the kids say, slaps, and has the excitement for the first trailer for the movie at a fever pitch. The film, starring Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Bess Rouss, is directed by Chris McKay and written by Rick and Morty's Ryan Ridley. Skybound Entertainment's Robert Kirkman, David Alpert, Bryan Furst, and Sean Furst are the producers. Cage plays Dracula, with Hoult playing his long-suffering assistant who "finds a new lease on life and maybe even redemption when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy," played by Awkwafina.

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Renfield Is Going To Blow People Away

Nicolas Cage has been out there teasing his take on Dracula for Renfield, even talking about how goth he is: "I looked at Bela Lugosi's performance, and then I looked at Frank Langella's performance. I looked at Gary's performance in uncle's movie, which I think it's just so sumptuous. Every frame is a work of art. I want it to pop in a unique way from how we've seen it played. So I'm thinking to really focus on the movement of the character. You know, I saw 'Malignant,' and I thought what she did with those moves — and even 'Ringu' with Sadako [Yamamura] … I want to look at what we can explore with this movement and voice."

I cannot wait for this film. From the time it was first announced through the leaked set photos of Cage in his full Dracula getup (they are around if you look hard enough), this might be the single film I am most looking forward to in 2023. Now that we have this logo, and with M3gan releasing this Friday in theaters, could that mean we get at least the first teaser this week? I hope so.

Renfield opens in theaters on April 14th, 2023.

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