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Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage-led Dracula film Renfield gets R-rating

December 23, 2022 by EJ Moreno

The Dracula-focused Renfield is approaching, and it’s about to be a gory good time.

A new report says the upcoming movie is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, some gore, language throughout, and some drug use.” The film comes from director Chris McKay (The Tomorrow War), who sees Nicholas Hoult as Renfield and Nicolas Cage playing the iconic Count Dracula.

Renfield will be a “modern-day adventure story that is comedic in tone.” The film centers on Renfield (Hoult), who has grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula’s (Cage) lackey. The henchman finds a new lease on life and maybe even redemption when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina).

SEE ALSO: See Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula in Renfield set photos

As you can see from the wrap tweet back in April of this year, Renfield’s release is fast approaching, and so hopefully we’ll see a trailer very soon.

Principal photography on #Renfield has officially wrapped! 🧛🎬 Only….*checks calendar* 365 days til it hits the big screen! pic.twitter.com/brhzL2Xdys

— Universal Pictures (@UniversalPics) April 14, 2022

Renfield is said to be a comedic take on the source material, similar in tone to Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows, and sees Cage and Hoult joined in the cast by Awkwafina (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Ben Schwartz (Sonic the Hedgehog), Adrian Martinez (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse), Bess Rous (Ghostbusters: Answer the Call) and James Moses Black (Queenpins).

Renfield will be released on April 14th, 2023.

 

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Dracula, Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Renfield, Universal Monsters

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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