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  2. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is a 2009 American fantasy film directed by Paul Weitz and co-screenplay adapted with Brian Helgeland, loosely based on the Vampire Blood trilogy of the book series The Saga of Darren Shan by author Darren Shan.

  3. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant: Directed by Paul Weitz. With John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Jessica Carlson. Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire.

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    • Action, Adventure, Fantasy
    • Paul Weitz
    • 2009-10-23
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    16-year-old Darren Shan and his best friend Steve Leonard visit a traveling freak show. Steve believes a performer, Larten Crepsley, is a vampire. Steve talks to Crepsley after the show and asks to become a vampire. Crepsley initially refuses but is talked into testing Steve's blood, that he spits out telling Steve he has bad blood. Steve furiously...

    Vampires

    1. John C. Reilly as Larten Crepsley 2. Chris Massoglia as Darren Shan 3. Willem Dafoe as Gavner Purl

    Vampaneze

    1. Ray Stevenson as Murlough 2. Josh Hutcherson as Steve Leonard

    Humans

    1. Morgan Saylor as Annie 2. Don McManus as Mr. Shan 3. Colleen Camp as Mrs. Shan 4. Christy Hutcherson as Mrs. Leonard

    "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" was shot in New Orleans, the village of Folsom and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Some of the characters required a great deal of prosthetics and makeup led by Steve Koch, Brian Sipe and Mark Garbarino. Prosthetics did not quite add the height needed on certain shots for the character of Mr. Tall played by Academ...

    The sequel for the first movie was expected, with the vast being fully ready, however after the lack of budget the film got deleted from the database in the way states of production, making it only a dream for movie adaptation fans.

    What drew John C. Reilly to play Larten Crepsley was "the fact that it was a real person, that he wasn't some supernatural mystical being that can turn into a vampire bat. The powers weren't so ext...
    The license plates of the purple car that drops the Cirque du Freak flyer uses the European Union pattern for Germany: D for Deutschland (Germany in German) and a circle of twelve stars (European U...
    Students who attended a school in which a few scenes of the movie were shot were cast as extras.
    A portion of the film was shot in Studio 28 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. It is the oldest sound stage still in use at the studio.

    The score to "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" was composed by Stephen Trask, marking his third feature film with director Paul Weitz. He recorded his score with an 86-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.

  4. In the first trilogy, known as Vampire Blood or The Vampire's Assistant, Darren learns about and comes to accept his vampirism. In the first book, Cirque du Freak (also known as Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare), Mr. Crepsley makes Darren a half-vampire in return for saving the life of one of Darren's best friends, Steve Leonard.

  5. Darren (Chris Massoglia) is just like any other teenager, until the day he encounters the Cirque du Freak and a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly). After Crepsley turns him into...

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    • Paul Weitz
    • PG-13
    • John C. Reilly
  6. Summaries. Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak, becoming a creature of the night.

  7. Oct 23, 2009 · RELEASED IN 2009 and directed by Marco Brambilla, "Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant" is a fantasy/horror/comedy about a teen (Chris Massoglia) who is compelled to join a circus of freaks where he becomes (you guessed it) the assistant of a vampire (John C. Reilly) and learns of a war between two classes of vampires.