Hayek plays bearded lady, one of the performers at the Cirque Du Freak who can grow a beard all the way down to her feet, then suck it up again through her face as if she has no facial hair at all.
In the film, John C. Reilly plays a vampire who drafts a 14-year-old to serve as his assistant. The youth is turned into a half-vampire who breaks a 200-year truce between two warring bloodsucker factions. A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. The vampire agrees to give him the only cure for his ill friend Steve if Darren agrees to become his assistant, and half vampire. After a series of events Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque Du Freak.
The first three books may be adapted for a stand alone movie, however there could be up to three sequels as the saga consisted of twelve books split into 4 trilogies.
“Cirque du Freak,” kid-friendly story, directed by Paul Weitz from the script by Brian Helgeland stars Chris Massoglia, Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Willem Dafoe and Josh Hutcherson.
