By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Nicolas Cage will play Dracula in Universal’s upcoming monster film “Renfield”.
The movie centres on Dracula’s henchman R M Renfield, who was a distinguished determine in writer Bram Stoker’s cult traditional 1897 novel.
In the ebook, Renfield was a affected person in an asylum with an obsession for consuming blood, deluded into pondering he would discover immortality.
He bows on the toes of the vampire king, who feeds him bugs and rats and dangles eternal life in entrance of him.
In the film, actor Nicholas Hoult will tackle the position of Renfield.
“The Tomorrow War” director Chris McKay is directing the characteristic movie which is predicated on an authentic story define from Robert Kirkman, the creator of “The Walking Dead”.
Ryan Ridley has penned the script.
The movie, arrange at Universal Pictures, can be produced by Skybound Entertainment’s Kirkman, David Alpert, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst.