Nov 15 2007John C. Reilly Will Drink Your Blood
With all the hoopla surrounding films like Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, and Bridge to Terabithia--putting kids in fantastic, off-the-wall situations--it's about time someone made a smaller, more down-to-earth story, something any child could relate too. Like visiting an illegal freak show, meeting a vampire and a giant spider, and being forced into vampire servitude. You know, like when you were a kid.
Thankfully, About a Boy's Paul Weitz is making just such a thing, adapting Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak book series, and has cast John C. Reilly as the vampire. Why has it taken us this long to think of a curly-haired, kind of chubby vampire? I don't know. But at least we got there.
PS: I'm going on a short vacation, so there will be no new posts tomorrow. I'll be back Monday, refreshed and with a renewed enthusiasm in romantic-comedy trailers and Rambo posters.
Reilly gets his 'Freak' on with Uni [Hollywood Reporter]
Reader Comments
1. Grace - November 15, 2007 4:02 PM
Can he even get his teeth to touch skin? I mean, it's pretty difficult to get anything around those big beefy cheeks.
But seriously, aren't vampires supposed to be sexy? I really wouldn't want this guy sweating and wheezing over me just before he drinks my blood.
2. Claire - November 15, 2007 5:10 PM
wild guy.
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2295305
3. Lisa - November 15, 2007 6:18 PM
Aw, he's just like the curly haired chubby vampire from an episode of X-Files called Bad Blood! Cute.
4. Feckless - November 15, 2007 6:40 PM
Hey WatchStuff guy - hope you get laid!!
5. Tommy - November 15, 2007 7:51 PM
he has a blood drinker face lol
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2302204
6. srah - November 15, 2007 9:50 PM
so he's playing darren shan? or darren shan's mentor? 'cause he's too chubby really to play either but the former would be better.
the books are pretty good so i hope they don't ruin them (watch me avoid the golden compass at all costs)... i think it could adapt pretty well to the screen as long as they don't screw it up.
7. mike - November 15, 2007 10:23 PM
the director's brother just directed "the golden compass". this movie sounds like the same kind of thing. series of children's fantasy novels.
mix it up, fellas.
8. tse-tse - November 15, 2007 11:00 PM
Curly-haired, chubby vampires is so X-Files circa 1997.
9. hank - November 16, 2007 7:36 AM
he is my favourite person.
10. hank - November 16, 2007 7:51 AM
PS: enjoy yourself at fat camp, anticlown!
11. Julia - November 16, 2007 11:00 PM
#3 Oh crap, you beat me to it! I didn't think someone would actually remember the chubby, curly haired vampire from Bad Blood.
12. Lisa - November 17, 2007 1:23 PM
Great minds think alike, dahling :)
13. Marcelo - November 17, 2007 11:15 PM
great!
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14. Maggy Reaiuo - November 19, 2007 4:48 AM
He is soooo Cool................
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15. Ally B - July 9, 2008 8:10 PM
oh shit! this is my dream come true. screw twilight I want to watch this movie now...i love the books.