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Nicolas Cage has been cast arsenic Dracula in a inexperient Universal Monsters movie noble Renfield, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Renfield stars Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Frenzy Road, X-Workforce: Acherontic Phoenix) as the denomination acolyte and henchman from the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Renfield was a patient at an asylum WHO was obsessed with the thought of drinking blood for immortality. Naturally, he finds himself low Genus Dracula's wing and is Fed animals and the prospect of a never-ending life in exchange for his loyalty and adulation.

THR's report doesn't provide a lot of specifics on how the relationship between Cage's Dracula and Hoult's Renfield will tire in the upcoming movie, but the project is beingness described as "comedic in quality."

Renfield is being directed by Chris McKay, whose body of work includes Amazon's The Tomorrow War and The Lego Batman Movie. Ryan Ridley, who has writing and voice acting credits on Wrick and Morty, is penning a script based on an original story outline by Henry M. Robert Kirkman, co-Godhead of The Walking Dead comics.

In a lot of ways, this feels like the climax of Cage's many crazy roles, from the filicidal forefather in Mom and Papa, to, rather aptly, the guy who thinks helium's turning into a lamia in the 1989 comedy-horror Lamia's Osculation. A couple of days back, we made a list of the wackiest Nic Cage moments, and one can only hope Renfield wish suffer a scene Beaver State two that makes the cut on a revival of that piece.

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