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2010-10-12 20:34:39 UTC
By Ed Gross
As Johnny Depp continues to arrange a wide variety of projects he's
expressed interest in, it's been reported that his big screen version
of the 1960s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows will begin shooting this
February.
The film, which is going to be directed by frequent Depp collaborator
Tim Burton, had originally had its screenplay written by John August.
More recently, however, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter author Seth
Graham-Smith has come on to the project and, at this point, has
supposedly handed in his script.
In Dark Shadows, Depp will play 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins,
sealed in his coffin by his father in 1795 and inadvertently unleashed
in the present where he must adjust to an entirely new world while
passing himself off to relatives in Collinwood, Maine as a cousin from
England.
Explains Depp, "Tim and I have tossed the idea for Dark Shadows over
the years. It was a TV program in the States in the late 60s and early
70s that I remember watching as a kid. I was obsessed with this
character, Barnabas Collins, who was a vampire. I came to find out
many years later that when he was a kid, Tim ran home like I did to
watch that Gothic soap opera. It was a very strange thing back then.We
looked at ways to go, story-wise. We've started to come up with
something interesting."
Interestingly, this is not the first revival of Dark Shadows. In 1991
NBC aired a primetime version with Ben Cross as Barnabas, and in 2004
a CW pilot was produced starring Alec Newman as the vampire.
Additionally, one of the most interesting aspects of the show was that
the setting, which began in the present, would frequently travel to
the past with the cast playing their own ancestors. The first
flashback was to 1795 and the "origin" of Barnabas, which went a long
way in transforming him from the villain of the piece to a sympathetic
vampire. One would imagine that some aspect of this origin story will
be featured in Burton's version.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/scifimediazone/news/?a=23619
As Johnny Depp continues to arrange a wide variety of projects he's
expressed interest in, it's been reported that his big screen version
of the 1960s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows will begin shooting this
February.
The film, which is going to be directed by frequent Depp collaborator
Tim Burton, had originally had its screenplay written by John August.
More recently, however, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter author Seth
Graham-Smith has come on to the project and, at this point, has
supposedly handed in his script.
In Dark Shadows, Depp will play 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins,
sealed in his coffin by his father in 1795 and inadvertently unleashed
in the present where he must adjust to an entirely new world while
passing himself off to relatives in Collinwood, Maine as a cousin from
England.
Explains Depp, "Tim and I have tossed the idea for Dark Shadows over
the years. It was a TV program in the States in the late 60s and early
70s that I remember watching as a kid. I was obsessed with this
character, Barnabas Collins, who was a vampire. I came to find out
many years later that when he was a kid, Tim ran home like I did to
watch that Gothic soap opera. It was a very strange thing back then.We
looked at ways to go, story-wise. We've started to come up with
something interesting."
Interestingly, this is not the first revival of Dark Shadows. In 1991
NBC aired a primetime version with Ben Cross as Barnabas, and in 2004
a CW pilot was produced starring Alec Newman as the vampire.
Additionally, one of the most interesting aspects of the show was that
the setting, which began in the present, would frequently travel to
the past with the cast playing their own ancestors. The first
flashback was to 1795 and the "origin" of Barnabas, which went a long
way in transforming him from the villain of the piece to a sympathetic
vampire. One would imagine that some aspect of this origin story will
be featured in Burton's version.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/scifimediazone/news/?a=23619
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