Well its about friggin time!!!! Dark Shadows!!!! May 11, 2012!!!!
Can't wait!
Here is the trailer! AND they made it into a comedy! I am LOVING the trailer! And I AM a die hard Dark Shadow fan...but the movie can be different! I have ALL the DVD's of the soap oprah if I want to see the original gothic romance! I am quarky enough to appreciate Johnny and Tim's version!
- Johnny Depp
Why didn't some one tell me this EARLIER! I am so HAPPY! This article is dated: Friday, 27 July 2007 Link and YESTERDAY a new post you can find here!
The thought of this is just so damn YUMMY!
Some forty odd years ago a soap opera began its run, which would eventually take it to 1245 episodes by the time it went off the air in 1971. But this was no garden variety soap opera. This was "Dark Shadows".
Did you think Joss Whedon was awarded the patent for the vampire with a soul tormented by its own nature by virtue of his television shows "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel"? No, of course not. You'll slam that Anne Rice tome on the table with a smirk worthy of a US president. But before there was a Louis or a Lestat, there was Barnabas Collins.
It wasn't until episode 210 that the show really took off and racked up increasingly better ratings. That's when the petty criminal Willy Loomis, indulging in a spot of grave robbing to augment his pinched finances, released the vampire Barnabas Collins, played by the Canadian Shakespearean stage actor Jonathan Frid, from the Collins family mausoleum, where he had been imprisoned since the late 18th century.
Originally the character was only meant to be one in a series of villainous protagonists over a hundred or so episodes. But when ratings skyrocketed and fan-mail started pouring in from smitten viewers plans were hastily redrawn. Looking older than his 43 years at the time, and hardly what you'd call conventionally handsome, aside from playing what was still a rather clearly evil character, Frid was an unlikely candidate for romantic heartthrob. But viewers had obviously caught on to the undertone of tragedy which he had brought to his portrayal of Barnabas Collins.
The character created by Frid and Curtis, the angst ridden vampire anti-hero with genuinely tragic dimensions, doomed to forever struggle with his own nature and seeking redemption, would become the model without which such later works as Anne Rice's vampire novels and Joss Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" might never have been.
Besides vampires, the show, on a budget you could fit in a smallish
piggy-bank, ran through the gamut of Gothic plots, creatures and things
that go bump in the night and knocks over the cardboard sets. It was
laughable, it was over the top, it was fun, and surprisingly often it
was heart-wrenchingly moving.
It managed the feat of being self-consciously goofy and dead serious at the same time. And it introduced house-fraus, and geeky kids like Tim Burton, to the heady brew of undiluted grade A Gothic Absinthe.
Two subsequent attempts were made to revive the show, with less than stellar results. And with the death of orginal producer Dan Curtis last year, it looked like the the crypt door had finally slammed shut on "Dark Shadows".
But according to trade magazine Variety, via Filmstalker, Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum-Nihil, GK Films, and Warner Bros. have signed a deal with the estate of the late Dan Curtis, and secured the rights to develop a feature film based on the show. Depp and Graham King will produce with David Kennedy, who ran Dan Curtis Prods. until Curtis' death. There's no word on who would direct, and indeed no word on whether Mr Depp would take on the signature role of Barnabas Collins himself. But it would seem the obvious choice, especially considering his personal attachment to the character:
Depp has said in interviews that he has always been obsessed with "Dark Shadows" and had, as a child, wanted to be Barnabas Collins, the vampire patriarch of the series. (Swoon! I should never doubt WHY I love him!)
Oh. Happy Birthday Baby! WHO do you think this is???? So pretty even as a baby! He was born on Wed, January 8, 1947 at 22:59 hours
Johnny Depp has signed a deal to step into the shoes of one of the most famous gangsters in US history, according to industry reports. (This is where I read this)
The Pirates of the Caribbean star is reportedly to play John Dillinger, the notorious Depression-era bank robber famed for his graceful heists during the public enemy era of early 1930s America.
Variety reports that Depp met with legendary crime director Michael Mann to discuss an adaptation of Brian Burroughs' 2004 book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, with shooting likely to start on March 10th.
Heat helmer Mann was thought to have been considering a spot in the director's chair for the Tom Cruise-starring spy thriller Edwin A Salt, but with Depp becoming available after the shooting of his film Shantaram was postponed, Mann has turned his attention instead to the gangster thriller.
FBI director J Edgar Hoover became obsessed with catching Dillinger, at one point spending a third of the entire bureau budget on hunting the thief down.
Rumours have persisted since Dillinger's death in July 1934 – after brothel owner Ana Cumpanas wore an orange dress during a cinema visit to alert nearby FBI agents to the presence of Dillinger – that he would routinely make prank telephone calls to Hoover as well as sending the bureau chief Christmas cards.
Personally...I hate seeing him die...even fake in film!
So my pretend boyfriend is getting married this summer. Two things I hope for him, happiness and that the piece of paper doesn't change the dynamic of his relationship! I am not one to promote marriage! Grin!
I do hope the best for him and his children...even if I don't get why he has to be married now! LOL
Be happy Johnny!
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