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  • James Moses Black joins Nicholas Cage’s Renfield

    By Express News Service

    Nicolas Cage and Nicolas Hoult’s Universal monster film “Renfield” is one of the anticipated films this year. The upcoming horror film has added another new cast member. James Moses Black has joined the ensemble cast in an unknown role.

    The rest of the cast includes Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Bess Rouss, and the previously mentioned Cage and Hoult as “Dracula” and his servant “Renfield” respectively. This film is an original take on the Dracula tale from an outline by “The Walking Dead”’s Robert Kirkman and a screenplay by Rick and Morty’s Ryan Ridley. The film is being directed by “The Lego Batman Movie” and “The Tomorrow War”’s Chris McKay.

    Black has been a part of many films like “Lansky,” “Black and Blue,” and “Queenpins” and series like Amazon’s “S.O.Z.: Soldados o Zombies” and YouTube Premium’s “Liza on Demand.” Renfield has been in production for almost a month now. But the film does not have a release date or window yet. 

  • Ben Schwartz on board monster film Renfield

    By Express News Service

    Actor Ben Schwartz has joined the cast of the upcoming monster film Renfield. The actor joins the previously announced cast that includes Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, and Awkwafina.

    Renfield is a character that debuted in Bram Stoker’s original Dracula novel. In that story, Renfield was an inmate at an asylum who was thought to be suffering from delusions that compelled him to eat live creatures in the hopes of obtaining immortality, but in fact, was a servant of the popular vampire.

    Hault is set to portray the titular character, while Cage will play Dracula. Details of Awkwafina’s character is currently kept under wraps. Renfield has a script written by Ryan Ridley (Rick and Morty) and is based on an original story written by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead).

    The plotline, release date and other details of the cast are yet unknown. Filmmaker Chris McKay, who is well-known for directing The Tomorrow War and The Lego Batman Movie, is also producing Renfield.

    The film will be produced by Skybound Entertainment’s film team, including Kirkman, David Alpert, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst. McKay’s producing partner Samantha Nisenboim will serve as an executive producer. Renfield is a Universal Pictures film. 

  • Idris Elba to voice Knuckles in ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: “The Suicide Squad” star Idris Elba has boarded the cast of the upcoming animation film “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” in which he will voice the fan-favourite character Knuckles.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ben Schwartz will reprise his role as the title character with Jeff Fowler returning to direct.

    James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore and Jim Carrey also voice star in the sequel to the 2020 film.

    Knuckles first appeared as an antagonist in 1994’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” before befriending Sonic and his ally Tails and becoming a protagonist in his own right in 1995’s “Sonic & Knuckles”.

    Pat Casey, Josh Miller and John Whittington have penned the script for “Sonic 2”, from a story by Casey and Miller.

    Neal H Moritz, Toby Ascher, Toru Nakahara, Hitoshi Okuno are attached to produce the film.

    Executive producers are Haruki Satomi, Yukio Sugino, Shuji Utsumi, Nan Morales and Tim Miller.

    Paramount Pictures will release the film on April 8, 2022.

    The first “Sonic” was a box office success that raked in USD 319.7 million globally upon its opening in February 2020, making it one of the final blockbusters to be released before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world.