Awkwafina Has Joined Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult in Universal's RENFIELD

Awkwafina is set to star in Universal Pictures’ upcoming monster movie Renfield. She joins the previously cast Nicholas Hoult, who plays Dracula’s unhinged henchman R.M. Renfield and Nicolas Cage is set to play Dracula, which will be fun to see.

There’s no word on who Awkwafina will be playing in the film, but I imagine it will be a comic relief type character.

In the original Dracula novel, Renfield was an inmate at a lunatic asylum who was thought to be suffering from delusions but actually is a servant of Dracula.

The story is said to be an original that is believed to take place during the present day. Chris McKay (The Tomorrow War, The Lego Batman Movie 1 & 2) is directing the movie and the script is based on an original story outline from The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman. Ryan Ridley wrote the most recent version of the script.

Source: Deadline