There are other big projects for fans to look forward to apart from this new Renfield movie. The actress also voiced a leading role in Disney’s animated movie Raya and the Last Dragon and continues to work on her own television series Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. Despite opening during a pandemic, the movie pulled in more than $431 million, with many fans and critics especially enjoying Awkwafina’s performance. Dracula takes advantage of this by dangling immortality to get Renfield to do his bidding.Īwkwafina is more popular than ever after a strong showing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring alongside Simu Liu in the hit movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The history of these characters goes all the way back to Bram Stoker’s original Dracula novel with Renfield typically depicted as a psychiatric ward patient with an obsession for eating bugs to obtain their life-force. Set in the present day, Renfield is said to be comedic in tone, delving into the toxic and co-dependent relationship between the titular henchman and Count Dracula. Samantha Nisenboim is executive producing. McKay and Kirkman are also producing with David Alpert, Bryan Furst, and Sean Furst. Reportedly, Awkwafina will play a character who teams up with Renfield to take on the vampire king.Ĭhris McKay ( The Tomorrow War, The Lego Batman Movie) directs Renfield with the script coming from Ryan Ridley ( Ghosted, Rick and Morty), derived from an original story outline from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman. This reveal follows the news that Nicolas Cage had been cast to play Dracula in the movie alongside Nicholas Hoult as the titular henchman.

The cast of Renfield continues to grow as it’s now been reported that Awkwafina has just boarded the project in a main role.

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