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