NEWS: #NICHOLASCAGE PLAYING DRACULA AND #NICHOLASHOULT AS RENFIELD IN NEW UNIVERSAL FLICK!

IS THIS OFF TOPIC? I am not sure. But hey, it's Dracula, a character close to Peter Cushing's and Christopher Lee's heart... not sure what they would think or say about this though. I am surprised it has taken this long for them /Universal to get around to a film based on the 'Renfield' character. 

 

NEWS: Nicolas Cage has made a career of biting into his roles with seemingly reckless abandon, even as he strayed further and further from studio movie making and sunk his teeth into indie cinema. Now, in a deal sealed with a vampire’s kiss, Cage is returning to a big-studio movie and will play the meaty role of Dracula in Universal Pictures’ monster movie 'Renfield'. Nicholas Hoult is starring as the titular character, the vampire count’s infamous acolyte and henchman, in the feature directed by Chris McKay, the helmer behind Amazon’s The Tomorrow War and The Lego Batman Movie.

 

BELOW JUST THREE OF MY PERSONAL RENFIELD 'TOP THREE' 

 

#DWIGHTFRYE for some the definitive #RENFIELD in #LUGOSI's 'DRACULA' ... he was mad enough for sure. YOUR fav??

 

TONY HAYGARTH, one of my favourite Renfiled's who was an amazing balance for #FrankLangella's Dracula. Dracula with a 'black comedy bent, was quite an impressive movie, me thinks...Haygarth and his northern sway on the role, as did the film was a breath of fresh air...

 

 
#TOMWAITS had the voice, the hair and the 'mood' already half way there for the role. A superb singer and artist, brought a whole other madly obsession to the role. Where Hammer films, totally booted and chopped out the character of Renfield in ALL of the Dracula movies, they did go some way, by bringing in Thorley Walters as 'Ludwig' who ticked the box for madness, fly eating and severer attachment issues to #Dracula.. but his hygiene was far too daily and smacked of #Disney's Pinocchio's Dad, Geppetto to be a real frightener... still quite crazy though.... - marcus

 

 

ABOVE: AS EVER, the brilliant THORLEY WALTERS playing  in Hammer films, edited and diced Renfield-ques 'Ludwig' in the 1966 Terence Fisher directed DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS

 

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