After making his name directing the animated feature The Lego Batman Movie, Chris McKay's live action debut 14th May, Renfield.
A comedy re-working of the relationship between Count Dracula and his long-suffering manservant. Nicolas Cage taking on the legendary Count role with Nicholas Hoult as our titular hero .
Freda Cooper recently had a chat with McKay who chats about animation, making that live action, could he go onto make a Lego Dracula movie?
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SYNOPSIS:
Evil doesn’t span eternity without a little help.
In this modern monster tale of Dracula’s loyal servant, Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men franchise) stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to history’s most narcissistic boss, Dracula (Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage). Renfield is forced to procure his master’s prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there’s a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.
Renfield is directed by Chris McKay (The Tomorrow War, The LEGO Batman Movie) from a screenplay by Ryan Ridley (Ghosted series, Rick & Morty series), based on an original idea by The Walking Dead and Invincible creator Robert Kirkman.
Renfield also stars Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez along with Shohreh Aghdashloo.