Ken Watanabe has signed on to join John C. Reilly and Salma Hayek in Universal Pictures vampire pic "
Cirque du Freak."
Reilly will play a vampire who drafts a 14-year-old to serve as his assistant. The youth is turned into a half-vampire and becomes the catalyst in a battle between vampires and the rival Vampanese. Hayek will play Madame Truska, the bearded lady.