DARK SHADOWS form in April for Tim Burton and Johnny Depp!
Update: Yes, I am adding new info on a post from July. So what? Everything I said four months or so ago still stands... except you can change the January filming date, to April...Around this time last year, Tim Burton announced that his next movie would be an adaptation of the 60's Gothic ABC serial Dark Shadows with (you guessed it) Johnny Depp set to lead as the vampire Barnabas Collins. Without a doubt, it's a dream project for Warner Bros and was probably the easiest pitch of Burton's whole career. All he needed to say was 'Depp as a vampire with feelings'. Yup, it's gonna be huge. Though we sincerely hope it's not being made just so emo favourite Depp can play a tortured, self-loathing member of the undead for those pesky Twilighters.


Dark Shadows was distinguished by its vividly melodramatic performances, atmospheric interiors, memorable story lines and an unusually adventurous music score. Now regarded as somewhat of a camp classic, it continues to enjoy intense cult status among its followers.Isnt it interesting that the above could account for any Tim Burton movie ever made? Change Dark Shadows to Batman, Batman Returns, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks! and Sweeney Todd and it all works. For Depp - it will be his movie post-Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides film and will shoot before his ambitious Pancho Villa biopic. His schedule now looks full until late 2011.
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