It’s hard not to laugh at anything John C. Reilly says these days, even if that thing is “Wanna become a vampire?”, but after Walk Hard and the Steve Brule videos, anything Reilly is in becomes a comedy, intentional or not.
I’m guessing Cirque du Freak was originally pitched as a regular John C. Reilly comedy, then the studio demanded they just toss in some vampires at the last second. “Also, work the Twitter in there somehow!”
When a trailer starts out with “It was a normal, ordinary, predictable life,” usually the life then becomes not normal, ordinary, and predictable. That is a thing that I have noticed!
