Bram Stoker’sDraculahas been adapted so often that we ’re all very familiar with the bloodsucker ’s tale . Even Van Helsing , the famed Dracula hunter , has catch time in the limelight . Now we ’re getting a movie about Renfield , the psychiatric patient who bolt spiders and flies while pining for his lamia lord .
Renfield will be part of the new Universal Monsters renaissance — along with Leigh Whannell ’s presently - to - be - releasedInvisible ManandPaul Feig ’s in - development Dark Army — that ’s happening in the wake ofthe Dark Universe flameout . It ’ll be directed by Dexter Fletcher , who made Rocketman and also magnificently stepped in after Bryan Singer ’s departure to finish Bohemian Rhapsody .
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Tom Waits (left) played Renfield in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula.Image: Columbia Pictures
The Hollywood Reporternotes that “ this take on the project is described as a comedic , lightsome approach in the vein of Taika Waititi’svampire mockumentaryWhat We Do in the Shadows , in which Renfield realizes he is in a bad , co - dependent relationship , ” an idea that was pitched by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and script by Ryan Ridley ( Rick and Morty ) .
That does sure enough sound reminiscent of FX ’s What We Do in the Shadows TV show , though at the ending of season one , it was revealed that loyal lamia intimate / token human Guillermo — who is 100 percentage in a high-risk , co - drug-addicted relationship with his maestro — is [ looter ! ] in reality go down from Van Helsing , something the show will no doubt be search in its 2d season . However , What We Do in the Shadows is genius clowning , and the fact that it ’s pep up other projects ( that voice about as far off fromThe Mummyas potential ) can only be a good thing .
We ’ll bring you more on Renfield — casting ’s gon na be enormously important for this one — when we try it .
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