Dark Shadows
Aug. 2nd, 2007 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hippie_chickOkay, this just came to my attention.
Warner Bros. is teaming with Johnny Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King's GK Films to develop a feature based on the '60s shock-soap "Dark Shadows" .
Read more about it here.
I do remember this show, and as a kid being glued to the set every day when it came on, and watching reruns. It was a trip. And just really,really cool for a soap opera, campy as it was. But to a kid like I was, it could be actually quite scary. It was a precursor to shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, if truth be told. I remember even having a Dark Shadows board game, complete with coffins and glow in the dark skeletons! Way cool.
I think Johnny will be perfect for Barnabas. I really do. I'm looking forward to seeing what becomes of this. There is no *official* word of Johnny actually taking on the role of Barnabas Collins, just that they've secured the rights, but he needs to. He REALLY does. It would be great! Plus he's admitted to an obsession with the show and the character since he was a kid. Jonathan Frid was da man.
That said, Johnny has his fingers in many pots just lately. Looking at IMDb, he's rumored to have a part in "Sin City 2", which is in production, as well as currently in production on "Shantaram". And of course there's "Sweeney Todd", currently in post production. After that, doesn't he finally start "Rum Diary"? Either way, you probably won't see the Dark Shadows movie until, also according to IMDb, sometime in 2010.
Warner Bros. is teaming with Johnny Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King's GK Films to develop a feature based on the '60s shock-soap "Dark Shadows" .
Read more about it here.
I do remember this show, and as a kid being glued to the set every day when it came on, and watching reruns. It was a trip. And just really,really cool for a soap opera, campy as it was. But to a kid like I was, it could be actually quite scary. It was a precursor to shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, if truth be told. I remember even having a Dark Shadows board game, complete with coffins and glow in the dark skeletons! Way cool.
I think Johnny will be perfect for Barnabas. I really do. I'm looking forward to seeing what becomes of this. There is no *official* word of Johnny actually taking on the role of Barnabas Collins, just that they've secured the rights, but he needs to. He REALLY does. It would be great! Plus he's admitted to an obsession with the show and the character since he was a kid. Jonathan Frid was da man.
That said, Johnny has his fingers in many pots just lately. Looking at IMDb, he's rumored to have a part in "Sin City 2", which is in production, as well as currently in production on "Shantaram". And of course there's "Sweeney Todd", currently in post production. After that, doesn't he finally start "Rum Diary"? Either way, you probably won't see the Dark Shadows movie until, also according to IMDb, sometime in 2010.
