According to Sci Fi Wire, the next movie Tim Burton directs will be the long-rumored film version of the gothic 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas.
“We’re actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny,” producer Graham King told the website in a group interview last Friday in Los Angeles. “We’ve been working on the script a lot, even though he’s working on Alice [in Wonderland, Burton's next film, coming in March]. We’ve been given a script. John August wrote the first screenplay. We’re making some changes, but the film’s going to be in production, as I say, September or October of next year.”
Dark Shadows was something of a phenomenon for much of its 1966-1971 run on ABC: a soap opera that included supernatural characters such as ghosts, vampires, and werewolves, and plot elements such as time travel and alternate dimensions. It has since become a cult classic.
Tim Burton has long been a fan of the show, considering it an influence on his work.
The director and Johnny Depp have made many fantasy films together, including Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorshands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Am I the only sci-fi/fantasy geek in the world who doesn’t immediately moisten at the thought of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp attaching themselves to any project?
It’s great to have a recognisable authorial style I guess but I find myself looking at Burton’s work and wishing for some different colours, and different styling (and different stars). Johnny Depp is so over rated and I’d be hard pressed to think of a decent movie he’s made in 15 years…he and Burton bring out the worst in one another not the best, and I find their work work together cartoonish and flat and boring.
Oh great, now the Oracle made *me* grinchy
I like the IDEA of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton more than I like the resulting movies they make, for the most part. That said, if there’s ANY movie they should do together, this is probably it. I mean, it’s SUPPOSED to be campy…
But…but…Sweeney Todd? You didn’t enjoy that?
Sure, some of what they do just feels repetetive (Willy Wonka, The Corpse Bride) but I think they do good work when they collaborate.
But Johnny Depp hasn’t made a decent movie in 15 years?! I have to respectfully disagree with that one.
What I don’t understand, why does almost every girl, and plenty of gay men, think Johnny Depp is so cute? What is it with him?
Well I’m one gay man who doesn’t get the Johnny Depp/Orlando Bloom thing. But then I’m a Bear and those waifish girlie-men do nothing for me anyway.
Sweeney Todd? Nope? I’m a purist and a Broadway geek to boot. It was visually bloody which I actually appreciated, but the lack of vocal training in the stars left their vocal performances pretty blood-less. George Hearn and Michael Cerveris are far better Sweeneys and can sing the arse off the role, and Johnny is really nothing more special than being able to sing most of the notes. Likewise Angela Lansbury as his cracked accomplice is a delight, and what she lacked in vocal range she made up for in personality; Helena was a little too internal and restrained for a character that should be bawdy and crackling with good humour on the surface, and dark and obsessive on the inside. And there’s a reason Toby is usually portrayed by a grown up. Sondheim is incredibly difficult to sing (I’m a singer and I know this from experience) and a child, no matter who sweet his voice is, can’t handle the vocal and acting demands required for a Sondheim song.
And Donnie Brasco was the last movie of Johnny’s where I actually repsected his work as an actor. Since then he’s concerned more about quirkiness than substance, at in IMHO. (Oops…Blow was good too and that was a few years after Donnie Brasco.)
Donnie Brasco was the last movie of Johnny’s where I actually repsected his work as an actor. Since then he’s concerned more about quirkiness than substance, at in IMHO. (Oops…Blow was good too and that was a few years after Donnie Brasco.)