Christopher Lee, Frank Langella and Leslie Nielsen are all Hollywood stars best known for portraying the infamous Count Dracula—and now Nicolas Cage has been added to the list.
The pictures of the star in costume for his upcoming film about the iconic vampire have sparked a huge backlash on social media.
The Face Off actor stars in the upcoming horror-comedy Renfield alongside Nicholas Hoult in a remake of the Bram Stoker classic that follows the "toxic and co-dependent relationship" between Dracula and his henchmen.
People have got the pictures on the sets and later they have become viral on social media.
The horror podcast Nightmare on Film Street tweeted, "Nicolas Cage looks in all kinds of hell as Dracula on the set of Renfield."
While John Squire of Bloody Disgusting tweeted: "Props people for seeing Nicolas Cage's Dracula in the upcoming Universal Monsters movie Renfield for the first time. I'm loving what I see here. I love Christopher Lee's Dracula Reminds me a bit!"
"10/10. No note," added podcast host Scott Wampler.
"Screaming, as the children say," said film critic Chris Evangelista.
Meanwhile, another fan tweeted: "Never knew I needed to see Nicolas Cage play Dracula in a horror-comedy. The movie gods have outdone themselves this time."
Cage revealed last year that he plans to bring "something new" to the character of Dracula.
"I want it to pop in a unique way, the way we've played it. So I'm really thinking about focusing on the character's movement," he told the Variety Awards Circuit podcast in December.
"You know, I saw Malignant and I thought what he did with those moves—and even with Ringu Sadako [Yamamura]. I want to see what we do with this movement and voice can find,” he said.
"The thing that makes it super fun is that it's a comedy. And when you get that tone right—comedy and horror—like American Werewolf in London, it's a blast," he continued. kept. "It must be a bullseye. But that's what I'm looking for, something new to bring to the character and also the right tone of comedy and horror."
Cage's first look as Dracula came when the actor revealed this week that he paid off his debt by starring in B-movies.
"I've got all these creditors and the IRS and I'm spending $20,000 a month trying to keep my mother out of a mental institution, and I can't," he said in an interview with GQ. : "It was just everything happening all at once."
Cage earned dozens of credits that sidelined cinema releases in an effort to prevent him from filing for bankruptcy, however, he stood by with every performance.
"Even when I was doing four films in a year, one after the other, I had to find something in them so that I could give my all," he said.
"Some of them were great, like Mandy, but some of them didn't work out. But I never called it quits. So if there was a misconception, it was that — I was just doing it and not caring. was. I was caring."