Darren Shan in Hollywood - Limerick's Edgar Allen Poe to appear on silver screen

The vampire trilogy of Darren O’Shaughnessy is to be made into a hollywood blockbuster. Using the pen-name Darren Shan the Limerick man has produced an impressive list of children's horror novels and has now sold film rights to his first three books to Universal Studios, The Saga of Darren Shan, which will be produced as a single film in a screenplay written by Brian Helgeland, who did LA Confidential.