The elephant graveyard of 21st Century Hollywood history is littered with the bones of YA literary adaptations, when the rights to virtually any property were being hoovered up and spat out onto the screen as fast as possible to try and cash in on what was a highly lucrative bandwagon when it worked. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant was not one of those success stories, and it might even be one of the most utterly forgettable.
Without a hint of self-indulgence, author Darren Shan’s The Saga of Darren Shan (with a main character named Darren Shan) was eyed as the next potentially major franchise. In the end, though, Paul Weitz’s remarkably uninteresting combination of horror and comedy couldn’t even recoup its $40 million budget from theaters.
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