Universal Pictures has acquired the film rights to the best-selling children's series "Cirque Du Freak" by Irish author Darren Shan and has hired Brian Helgeland to adapt it says today's The Hollywood Reporter. Lauren Shuler Donner will produce the project for Universal. Helgeland will adapt the first three books of the series for the feature and also will executive produce.
Helgeland is best known for penning the Oscar winning script for "L.A. Confidential," and Oscar-nominated script for writing "Mystic River." He also wrote and directed "A Knight's Tale."
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