Dexter Fletcher Will Direct a Movie About Renfield, Dracula's Servant, For Universal

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Dexter Fletcher will direct a movie about Renfield, Dracula's servant, for Universal. Dracula vampires familiar horror horrormovies universalmonsters

This is, suffice to say, an interesting idea to keep expanding upon Universal’s monster library, while also designing a film that fits the current aesthetic of lower budgets and “buzzy filmmakers,” following the failure of the Dark Universe as an MCU-style shared film universe.dropped its first trailer recently.

In Bram Stoker’s original epistolary novel, R.M. Renfield is the name of an inmate at an insane asylum, who seems curiously informed in terms of the impending doom that is Dracula’s arrival in London. He is, as it turns out, the vampire’s longtime servant, having long since been driven mad through servitude.

Renfield has been played on screen numerous times in the past, perhaps most famously by actor Dwight Frye in Tod Browning’s 1931with Bela Lugosi. Others who have portrayed Renfield have included the likes of Klaus Kinski in 1970’s

 

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