We spoke w/ renfieldmovie's director, Chris McKay, about Nicolas Cage, D&D, and what it was like making a sequel to 'Dracula.'
Director Chris McKay has only made a few films so far, but each one has shown he's a filmmaker that likes to push his boundaries and try new things. Coming from TV animation like Moral Orel and Robot Chicken, it made sense that McKay's big-budget debut would come in 2017's The Lego Batman Movie, which took The Lego Movie version of Batman and gave him his own story alongside plenty of other IP.
I fell in love with the character of Renfield and his relationship with Dracula. Renfield is basically a guy who wants to get out of this bad relationship, and doesn’t know how—he’s been in this relationship for 93 years, and he wants to get out of it. I looked at this as an opportunity, because it has a lot of black comedy in it, there’s a lot of action in it, and there’s a little bit of suspense and drama in it too. So that, to me, seemed like a real fun combination.
MCKAY: A lot of the look of the film came from Basil Gogos’ paintings, the stuff that he did for Famous Monsters—which I think he was doing this work in the ‘50s and ‘60s—at the time, these characters were black and white, and they were only seen in black and white, and he was the first person to interpret them into color. To put Boris Karloff as Frankenstein and Bela Lugosi in color, and that sort of thing.
You get to kind of see the movie and feel the movie out, and solve those problems. And because I came from stop-motion for the most part in animation—even though the LEGO movies were digitally created in a computer—there’s something about it—stop-motion—where you have to build or find everything you want to put in front of the camera.
MCKAY: I kept telling marketing that that’s what we should say, that this is the only direct sequel. I guess you could argue Dracula’s Daughter is a sequel because the opening scene is the aftermath of the Tod Browning movie, but Bela Lugosi’s not in it, it’s a whole different set of characters. And it’s a great movie, it’s wild if you haven’t seen it. I thought the movie was great.
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