RENFIELD (Another Dracula movie from Universal)

RENFIELD

Studio: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

Prod Co: Skybound Entertainment

Dates: TBD 2021

Location: TBD

Budget: TBD

Execs: Executive: Holly Goline

Studio Executive: Jay Polidoro

Writer (Current): RYAN RIDLEY

Producer: Robert Kirkman

Director: Dexter Fletcher

Cast: Talent: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH [DRACULA: INTERESTED IN]

Logline: Based on the character R.M. Renfield from the 1897 Gothic horror novel, “Dracula”.

[RENFIELD]
Lead Male (40 - 49)
Dracula's human "familiar," who's been in service to him for hundreds of years, and who by the way eats bugs for energy. He attends a support group for people trapped in controlling relationships, and relieves his stress by murdering abusive partners of his fellow group members. When one of them turns out to be crossways with the Lobos crime family, he inadvertently ends up with a briefcase of drugs that belongs to the Lobos crime family, and he lures Henry Lobos and his goons out to recover it at the docks and kills them all, bringing them to the sewers for Dracula to feast on them. Rebecca observes him and sets out to bring him in for murder, and when she attacks him, he falls in love at first sight. Meanwhile he seeks to get out of his commitment to Dracula, which is met with a firm rejection. After Rebecca arrests him and is wounded in the process, he takes her to his apartment and cares for her, and protects her when Lobos goons attack them there. She comes to understand he's got a good heart but still defers to the law and hands him over to the FBI for prosecution for murder. When Dracula teams up with the Lobos and sends rats to devour Renfield in his cell, he is saved by Rebecca and agrees to go on a killing spree to help her raid the Lobos compound and lock up Ella. He battles Henry and kills him, then rescues Rebecca from Dracula's fangs and together they defeat and kill him too, and he and Rebecca begin a romance. After Ella's court conviction, he visits his long lost daughter who he's kept hidden away from Dracula for many years.

[REBECCA]
Supporting Female (30 - 39)
A hard-nosed cop who has been reared to always be on offense and to do unto others before they can do unto her. Her aggressive behavior costs her a dream job with the FBI after she beats up a fellow trainee who taunts her. Now she works as a police officer paired with Chris, and determined to dispense justice and bring down the powerful Lobos crime family. She catches Henry after a wild car chase only for the powers-that-be to release him because they're all in Ella Lobos' pocket. She witnesses Renfield slay ten Lobos goons singlehandedly and vows to bring him in, but when she tracks him down, Chris turns on her and she goes on the run with Renfield rather than hand him over to the Lobos'. She is surprised when Renfield turns out to be kind and caring, and he patches up a wound in her shoulder, and they team up to fight more goons Ella sends after them. She comes to regard Renfield as more a partner although she is weirded out by his profession of love, and she regrets turning him over to Dobbs as a serial killer suspect when the time comes to follow procedure. Later after Ella sends men to attack her estranged criminal father in prison, she convinces Renfield to join her in bringing the fight to Ella after helping him escape prison, and teams with him to kill Henry, lock up Ella, and destroy Dracula.

[DRACULA]
Supporting Male (60 - 69)
The prince of darkness himself. We first find him worse for wear, depleted and somewhat weak for lack of a steady diet of victims. He takes Renfield's desire to get out of his duties as Dracula's "familiar" personally and vows to destroy him if he even thinks about trying to leave his employ. As Renfield starts to deliver more and more victims in the form of Lobos henchmen he's dispatched, he starts to grow in strength and power, and decides it's time to embark on a campaign to rule over all of humankind. When Renfield stands up to him and demands his freedom, Dracula goes after Rebecca and is about to drain her blood when Renfield attacks him and with help from Rebecca manages to knock him into the light and burn him before killing him for good.