Dracula (where he’s played by legendary character actor Dwight Frye) and 1992’s
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in which director Francis Ford Coppola cast esteemed musician and occasional weird-guy actor Tom Waits as the vampire’s confined-to-an-asylum, snacking-on-bugs-and-grubs familiar. This new project from McKay
(The Tomorrow War, The Lego Batman Movie) which we first heard about in late 2019 will lean into the character’s humorous potential, which means the versatile Hoult will get to flex his horror-comedy muscles. This casting news came from the Hollywood Reporter today.
Back in May,
Renfield’s story and is co-producing described it as “a story about [Renfield] being Dracula’s henchman and how shitty a job that is. It’s a fun, extremely violent comedy because I’ve got a crutch, and it’s violence.” The script itself is by Ryan Ridley (whose previous writing credits include