Deadline reports that the Tim Burton / Johhny Depp take on the Gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows will be starting production come January 2011. Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) is writing the script and Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and Graham King’s GK Films are producing. Depp will be taking on the role of Barnabus Collins, a 175-year-old vampire who is on the hunt for both blood and his lost love, Josette. Collins was added to the series for a planned brief run in an attempt to boost its sagging ratings. However, the character, originally played by Jonathan Frid, proved to be so popular, that he was added as a regular and essentially became the star of the series.
Dark Shadows ran from 1966 to 1971, featured vampires, werewolves, witches and warlocks and even time travel and parallel universes, and became a cult classic in syndication. It also featured some notable actors who would go on to future
successes, including Conrad Bain, Dana Elcar, Kate Jackson, and Marsha
Mason among others. A little surprising that, this far into their offbeat careers and frequent collaborations, Burton and Depp are just now getting around to Dark Shadows, which always seemed tailor-made for the both of them. Although the project has been delayed a number of times. In addition to AL:VH and Dark Shadows, Grahame-Smith has also written the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which will reportedly star Natalie Portman.
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Tim Burton and Johnny Depp? Good, another movie I can ignore entirely.
Why does this make me imagine a foppishy dandy vampire thats eye rolling, and not something cool and scary?
Is it me or is Tim Burton just running on auto-pilot these days? Making the exact films you'd expect him to make with the same people…..well, person. The guy needs to stretch himself a little, make a film outside of his comfort zone because he's become really boring.
i'm assuming you're under the age of thirty, #2. sad that whenever you say "vampire" anymore people automatically think of shiny mopey people in drag. dark shadows was a cheesy show (actually quite literally a soap opera), but if you were a kid who was into monsters, there was nothing better on tv. sounds fantastic, and exactly the type of movie burton and depp should be making.
I'm also a little tired of this collaboration.
Not exactly Fellini and Mastroianni, is it?
Fuck you, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Zzzzzz.
If I see an R rating, maybe I'll be interested…
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