Tim Burton and Jonny Depp to make DARK SHADOWS
 

The dynamic duo of Jonny Depp and Tim Burton are teaming up again for a vampire movie. This time around the classic Dark Shadows will be getting its turn on the silver screen. Producer Graham King comfirmed with SciFi Wire it will start shooting next year. "We're actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny [Depp]," King told them.

In the original TV series a 175 year old vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonny Depp) hungers for blood and his long lost beloved. The series ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. As of today John August is in charge of the script.
King also had this to say "We've been working on the script a lot, even though [Tim's] working on Alice," King added. "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."

I never watched Dark Shadows, but I will watch anything with Depp acting and Burton directing. Jonny Depp has been an impressive actor since he broke on to the small screen in 21 Jump Street one of the original FOX television shows, but it’s the direction he receives from Burton that truly brings out the outstanding actor that we have come to love.

It was Burton’s vision on Edward Scissorhands (1990) that took Depp from Teen Beat cover boy to being a genuine actor. In that role Depp had to do everything with his face and body, and it was with that role that we caught a glimpse of Depps true acting ability. Since Scissorhands there has been no stopping them. With movies like Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd (2007) my all time favorite, and their newest one Alice in Wonderland (2010) Dark Shadows should be another great addition to the pairs already impressive body of work.

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This needs to go in the Upcoming Films section, BC. This news is a few months old though, so there might already be a thread there about it. It's certainly been mentioned.

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I did a search and I didn't find any, and this is the upcoming film section.

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Thank you BC ill be sure to check out more about this movie

Who are you and what have you done with my brother?

I used to run home from school to watch that show, but I could never get into it when they reran it decades later becuae the earliest episodes of Barnabus, which was before I started watching, are quite dreadful with a more villainous vampire. When I got into it Barnabus was more like the hero with long periods where he was cured of vampirism. I didn't care for the movie with the original cast, House of Dark Shadows, because he was back to being a bad vampire. The best episodes are part of the storyline where Barnabus went back to the late 19th century and tried to help Quentin Collins get rid of his werewolf curse. It seems to me what made Dark Shadows unique is now pretty standard, a sympathetic, romantic vampire (although Johnathon Frid sure wouldn't win any beauty contests). The TV revival wasn't very exciting, even though it was better produced and had overall a better cast. Well, at least this movie won't have a way past her prime Joan Bennett whose acting was so listless it's hard to believe she was seriously considered for Scarlet O'Hara.

Sorry, BC, I cocked that up. Thought I was in the General Movie when I wrote that. Maybe it was just mentioned in jrs' thread. Anyway, you did the search so that's what matter. :)

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Really funny Harry

Damn Brits and their weird slang.

Whatever do you mean? BTW, could I bum a fag off you? :D

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What's with the whole fag thing. Cigarette - Fag pretty far off.

Yep. Right here and originally mentioned here. :D

Although I don't know, my guess would have to do with "fag" being short for "******", which is a bundle of sticks. This could either mean that the 'sticks' in question are the cigarettes (the bundle being the packet) or that the fag refers to the tobacco which is bundled. As I said, I don't know, but that'd be my guess. As for "fag" being slang for homosexual, that's an American thing, though some British public schoolboys may beg to differ.

Edit. I see that ****** is something that's blocked here. Although I don't mean it in that way, I'll leave it as it is.

I guess no one else has to comment an any movies coming up for the year your one post has them all covered.

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This film could work, but I'm not a big fan of Burton so I've not no problem keeping my expectations in check.

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I'm a fan of Burton, but what I liked about the Dark Shadows I was watching is it was like a crazy comic book, Marvel style, and I suspect Burton is going to dp some dark gothic thing. Coppola's Dracula was more like Dark Shadows than Bram Stoker so what's the point of this movie? But I can't really judge it since I don't really know what approach he will take.

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I enjoy the Burton-Depp films. Sounds promising.

interesting!

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I've been looking forward to this movie since they announced it! Can't wait, I really hope that its good.

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*sigh*

Sometimes I really want Johnny Depp (and Helena Bonham Carter) to be kidnapped and never found just so I can enjoy watching Tim Burton have a nervous breakdown as his career nosedives to a bloody end.

That's not nice.

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I hope this works out because I like Tim Burton especially Nightmare Before Christmas and I also like Johnny Depp, but I just wish that they could expand a little out of their box and not work on every project together. It is getting kind of old seeing a Burton film with both Depp and Bonham Carter in it. Come on there are other talented actors out there that could work with you Tim.

My Mom loved the original series... and I've seen a few of the reruns over the years... and am looking forward to this... with Grahame-Smith writing the script, it should be fun... :D

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It's about time these two worked together.

haha:rotfl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zkmANRZss&feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItWENw8Plk



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRhfwOxYHfM&feature=related

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Some site has announced it starts shooting in April. I didn't post the link because it didn't have any facts other than that. Pretty boy Johnny Depp is not my idea of Barnabus Collins, creepy looking Jonathan Frid permanently burned in my memory. I actually thought the series was much better when they got away from the focus on Barbabus early arrival at Collinwood and he became a kind of anti hero looking out for the Collins family. The best storyline involved the efforts to change the fate of Quentin Collins with the great Thayer David in top form as a villainous Count in search of his missing hand.

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I am interested to check the show out, even though I have no clue what it's about..
Vampires, right?

1225 episodes is a lot to check out, I better forget about it.

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Not just vampires, everything, werewolves, Rosemary's Baby, Turn of the Screw, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, they shamelessly stole from everywhere. Some of it was bad and some of it was great.

The actor with the gun is pretty lame, but look how much better the clip gets when Thayer David shows up.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lJZ44_nliU

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Sounds really interesting..

But 1225 episodes? :( I don't think I could manage with that.

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Unlike most daytime soap opera, it wasn't one continuing story. I think the Quentin one ran the longest, over a year, the others were usually six months about. They would kill off characters, then the same actors if they liked them would come back as someone else, often in different time periods and also parallel worlds. The bad actors stayed dead like the one with the gun.

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I think I'll give this a try. That above clip was really fun.

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It probably would be too hard to watch them from the beginning now. I caught it during the seance sequence which showed how Barnabus became a vampire back in the 1700s. That was when the series was starting to catch fire. When many years later they tried to rerun them frpm the beginning with Barnabas first arrival in contemporary Collinswood I found it hard to watch. Even when the series hit its stride the episodes were always less interesting when the focus was on subplots not directly involving Barnabas or Quentin. Barnabas wasn't in every episode. I liked him better when he became more of a good guy. He wasn't always a vampire. He would be cured then something would happen to change him back or he went back in time to change the future in spirit form and take control of his vampire body. Like daytime soap operas I guess watching it every day you get hooked so to tolerate easily the flaws. Dark Shadows wasn't a hit with housewives, it was with us kids and college age which is why they switched the timeslot to just before the local news came on.

Here is the trailer for the first Dark Shadows movie, which made Barbabus a more conventional vampire. They made it when the series was still on the air and wasn't directly part of the continuity. it is better than average, but i misssed the more sympathetic vampire.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqnMkc7T6Uw

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Maybe I'll start with the 2 films.

:laugh:

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You would think Depp would be sick of working with Burton by now. All he does is remake old stories with the same makeup and design from hot topic... Depp could do better.

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Michelle Pfeiffer to star in 'Dark Shadows' with Johnny Depp?


2011-02-15 by Corinne Heller
Michelle Pfeiffer may star alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's new film "Dark Shadows," which is based on a 1960s vampire soap opera.




The 52-year-old actress, who Burton directed in the 1992 movie "Batman Returns," is in talks to play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, a "reclusive matriarch of the Collins clan," according to Deadline.com. Depp has been confirmed to play the main character, the 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins.
Pfeiffer and Burton, who has not commented on the report.
The actress is also known for movies such as "Scarface," Dangerous Minds" and the 2007 film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy story "Stardust."
Burton directed Depp in "Edward Scissorhands," "Sleepy Hollow," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Corpse Bride," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "Alice in Wonderland."
Others set to star in "Dark Shadows" include Eva Green as the witch Angelique, Jackie Earle Haley as Willie Loomis and Bella Heathcoate as Victoria Winters, one of Collins' love interests. Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's life partner and mother of their two children, may also join the cast, Deadline.com reported.
The movie is set to begin filming in April, preliminary cast lists show. It is set for release in 2012. The original "Dark Shadows" soap opera aired in the United States on ABC between 1966 and 1971.


If they are casting already they must have a shooting script. If HBC joins the cast, it means with the actors already cast she would play Dr. Julia Hoffman, which is very similar to the character she played in Sweeney Todd, the woman secretly in love with the Depp character.

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Here is a picture of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp together... They really have a bond that cannot be detached...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P0I-JHvGR0...ohnny-depp.jpg

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I really can't wait for this time. I hope Burton brings us a future classic in the fantasy genre.

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As opposed to light shadows?

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I was counting how many film had I seen that starred Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton....

Edward Scissor hands
Sleepy Hallow
Sweeney Todd
Alice in Wonderland

is there other films?

Ed Wood

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Ed Wood being Burton's best film IMO. Still can't wait for this. When's this being released again ?

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fhottie24, we hardly knew ye.

I don't know when it is coming out, but they seem to be pretty close to having it all cast so it looks they are ready to shoot, probably be in the can by the end of the year. There are so many different ways to do Dark Shadows. Will this version be straight vampire like House of Dark Shadows, more soap opera than horror, or more adventure oriented with Gothic trappings, the late direction of the TV series? Barnabas total villain, a little of this and that, or conflicted good guy, all of which he was in the TV series as the character evolved? If he is outright villain, I'll skip it even if the reviews are positive.

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That picture of Depp as Barnabus is horrible. Looks like his Mad Hatter and Willy Wonka. I'll skip it. Burton is going for pure camp. He doesn't understand the original.

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^ Completely agree, what's with the insane makeup. :yup:

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Tim Burton is just turning into a form of self-parody at this point.

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This picture posted after that one looks a lot better with Depp costumed more like Frid and this is the most detailed plot description yet and sounds faithful to the concept of the TV series, The biggest change is making Julia Hoffman a shrink instead of a medical doctor, but I can live with that.


Johnny Depp's true 'Dark Shadows' vampire revealed! -- EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK

by Anthony Breznican

http://ewinsidemovies.files.wordpres...pg?w=510&h=334 Photo by Leah Gallo

Behold the real visage of Johnny Depp’s vampire from Dark Shadows!
Last week, long-range paparazzi shots of the actor wearing ghostly white makeup, large sunglasses and a pulled down fedora made fans of the original 1966-71 supernatural soap opera bristle nervously, with complaints he looked simply too strange.
Nevermind that he’s playing a 200-year-old vampire, which is strange enough.
As you can see from this cast shot, Depp’s bloodsucking pater familias Barnabas Collins actually borrows heavily from the aged-little boy look of original Dark Shadows star Jonathan Frid — not that anyone would be happy to see this guy show up as your prom date either.
Still, this official First Look may reassure those die-hard fans of the original series, memorably offbeat ABC daytime drama about a vampire whose extended family are bedeviled by ghosts, witches, and other gothic woes.
Depp, who fought for years to make this movie, is one of those fans. “I do remember, very vividly, practically sprinting home from school in the afternoon to see Jonathan Frid play Barnabas Collins,” the actor says. “Even then, at that age, I knew — this has got to be weird.”
Weird certainly sums up this particular family portrait — a shot director Tim Burton, who also obsessed over Dark Shadows as a boy, staged in the early days of production.
“I remember seeing a group photograph of the cast of the original series,” he tells EW. “For me it captured the weird Dark Shadows vibe in a single image. I had a brief window of opportunity to have our cast present at the same time, the day before principle photography began. We decided to stage a similar picture instead of rehearsing, to see if we captured the Dark Shadows feeling.”
Here’s who those family members are, one by one.
Barnabas Collins (Depp) — He was an 18th century gentleman, a businessman just before the Revolutionary War, who was transformed against his will into a vampire and buried in a tomb for two centuries. After he finally emerges, uncovered by construction workers in the year 1972, he seeks out his descendants — as well as some long-ago foes and a possible lost love.
“He’s been alive this whole time and very hungry, with no idea what’s going on outside,” says screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which Burton is producing as a film.)
Barnabas is one vampire who is just as frightened of our times as we are of him, says producer Richard D. Zanuck: “Two-hundred years later, he’s suddenly walking into the town he saw being built and seeing girls in skirts, cars for the first time. It’s a man-out-of-time, supernatural horror story, but I put ‘horror’ in quotes.”
Despite his confusion, he’s still a ladies man. “In some sense he can be a terrifying killer; on the other hand, women have a weakness for him and he has a weakness for women,” Grahame-Smith says. “He can be a very well-mannered, well-meaning vampire most of the time, until his stomach is empty or someone challenges his beloved Collins family.”
Here’s that family, from left to right:
Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter) – From Alice in Wonderland’s Red Queen, to the cannibalistic cook Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Burton can’t help but cast the mother of his children as a deranged person. This prim and proper psychiatrist, who has taken up residence with the Collins family to care for their troubled youngest boy, might seem to break that trend — but don’t bet on it. “Dr. Hoffman’s been there for years, working with David [the little boy in the photo] but not making any progress. He still claims he sees ghosts and talks with his dead mother,” Grahame-Smith says. “She’s crazy but brilliant. Obviously she’s an eccentric, and definitely likes a drink or two. She’s definitely a little bit off her rocker, and is a woman with a lot of secrets herself.” The writer teases: “She’ll also become interested in Barnabas in more than one way. “
Carolyn Stoddard (Chloë Moretz) — Though she played a voracious child vampire in the acclaimed (but little seen) Let Me In, Moretz is on the human side of the spectrum in Dark Shadows — though that doesn’t mean this cousin of young David Collins (and daughter of Michelle Pfeiffer’s character, seen on the far right) isn’t without her own peculiarities. “Carolyn is your typical early-1970s teenager,” Grahame-Smith says. “She likes her music and likes her magazines, and does not like anyone in her family. She likes to keep her door closed and keep to herself. She’s pretty normal, but appearances can be deceiving. I wouldn’t say there is a normal person in this photo.”
Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green) — The Bond girl from Casino Royale turns up here as the villain of the story. “Angelique is a witch who has known Barnabas since the 1700s, when they had an affair that went sour. She is the one who cursed him to be a vampire and locked him in that box,” Grahame-Smith says. “Since he has been away, Angelique has made it her life’s mission to destroy the Collins family. So when Barnabas turns up again after all these years, she’s not very happy to see him.”
David Collins (Gulliver McGrath) — Lonely, confused, and neglected by his pompous father (Jonny Lee Miller, over on the right next to Pfeiffer), David has no one to confide in except his bizarre psychiatrist — and the dead people he claims to see. Grahame-Smith describes him as “a sweet, curious, precocious little boy whose family has branded him as slightly crazy.” Then he finally gets a new caretaker to look after him …
Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote) — This young woman arrives to become David’s new governess, only to find herself swept up in the vampire-witch melodrama. “When Barnabas meets Victoria, he’s instantly reminded of the woman he lost in the 1700s, before he was cursed to be a vampire,” Grahame-Smith says. “I wouldn’t say he falls in love with her, but there’s an instant attraction, an instant connection.” Is she the reincarnation of his doomed lover Josette du Pres? “We get the sense at the beginning she has a secret past, and that’s unraveled as it goes on,” the screenwriter says.
Mrs. Johnson (Ray Shirley) — “Poor old Mrs. Johnson …” Grahame-Smith sighs when talk turns to the old woman seated in the back behind Depp. “She is the mostly blind, mostly deaf maid, who has been with them for decades and decades. You might find her polishing a piece of silverware with a slab of baloney because she thinks it’s a polishing cloth. I don’t think she actually says anything in the entire film. She’s just sort of there.” He laughs: “Adding her was Tim’s idea.”
Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley) — How awesome is it to play an actual Groundskeeper Willie? The Oscar-nominee for Little Children is a slightly more competent servant than Mrs. Johnson, but that’s not saying much. “He’s the guy who takes out the trash, mows the lawns, and fixes the cars, except he’s usually so drunk and so disinterested that he doesn’t take his job seriously anymore,” Grahame-Smith says. “The lawn is overgrown, the house has fallen into disrepair, and all the cars are on cinder blocks. His heart’s definitely not in the job anymore.”
Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller) — This scion of the once-great Collins family is one of the main reasons the aristocratic clan has fallen into such disgrace. “He’s a creepy, self-centered guy who likes to order Willie around, likes to pretend the family is still on top of his game,” Grahame-Smith says. Not only is he a bad father to David, but he is a poor manager of whatever meager wealth the family retains. “When Barnabas shows up and has some very specific ideas about how to make things right, he’s obviously going to bump heads with Roger Collins.”
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) — The mother of Carolyn Stoddard, and mother-figure to David, she’s the one adult member of the Collins clan who is at least slightly competent. “Elizabeth is the rock of the family. She’s the matriarch,” Grahame-Smith says. “She’s the keeper of the Collins history, and a fierce protector of what remains of her family. She’s the one that insists on the best care for the children, even though money isn’t what it used to be. She’s a very strong woman who unfortunately has been dealt a very difficult deck.” With a witch perpetually trying to destroy her, and a long lost vampire relative turning up to reclaim control, “there’s just too much for her to handle,” Grahame-Smith says.
When the movie opens May 11, we’ll see how she holds

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Eva Green? I'm there, big fan of the actress and with a director whose work I adore, well most of it.

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That looks like crap.

I'm staying the hell away from that.

I kind of agree that it looks sort of off beat and all, but the poster is kinda cool and the trailer is sorta funny though.

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I agree with will, it looks like crap. I was kind of excited about what this might be and then I watched the trailer and that ended that.

It's all camped up like the Batman TV series except worse. It is nothing like the TV series (either of them) or House of Dark Shadows.

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After watching that trailer, I can't quite decide whether I want to see it or not. I had no interest in it before and, while I love the campy side, I'm not convinced by Tim Burton and the unrequited love angle is really off-putting.

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Eh. I like the look of the trailer for the most part, but the brightly multi-colored poster and humor isn't sparking any interest. I'm unfamiliar with the original TV series BTW, but I'm interested in seeing some of it before this comes out.

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Is Johnny Depp just trying to put as many movies out as he can to try and break some record or something?

It's Johnny Depp and Tim Burton.. what do you expect.

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Maybe Sweeney Todd with a little humor. Hell, their Alice in Wonderland wasn't as campy as that.

Well, this is just the first trailer. Maybe once more footage gets released, the film might not be as crappy looking. Who knows. People do sometimes tend to negatively judge a film before it's released, then when they see it their point of view changes dramatically.

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I actually had no idea this was a comedy until I saw the trailer.

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I love the look of it and an interesting different role for Eva Green that I'm looking forwards too.

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Hope the trailer was just edited that way & the film is nothing like that..
I don't know what it is that turned me off about the trailer, but I don't think there was anything I liked about it..

Too similar to the Addams Family adaptation..

Me neither. But then, as I said, I had no interest in it at all.

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Looks campy and fun :cool:

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Nobody knew it was going to be this broad, but there were hints in Burton's comments and some of the actors it wasn't going to be straight. But this is more like a very jokey spoof of Dark Shadows than an adaptation.

I loved the original. I would get home as quickly as I could to watch it in its later years (wasn't around in the beginning when it was done more straight Gothic and when they first introduced Barnabus). Sure it was hokey a lot of the time, had cheap sets and was kind of low-rent even by daytime serial standards, but it was lively, had a few wonderful actors mixed in with the usual mediocre daytime serial types. This is an abomination. The short-lived revived version in the nineties wasn't bad and had one inspired bit of casting, Barbara Steele as Dr. Julia, but lacked the fun of the original and a much duller, less interesting Barnabus. Frid was really perfect in that part even though he often seemed unsure what his next line was. The show was filmed live on the East Coast. This thing is just a jokey goof.

Sure, it isn't perfect. It is a daytime serial done on a low budget, but it is stil more watchable than that Tim Burton trailer. If this was done on a movie budget it could have been fantastic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8YkTj8tjw&feature=related

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An outright comedy from TB - might be funny.

Apparently Tim Burton and Johnny Depp work great together, almost to the point were Depp's work gets stereotyped.
Personaly, I'd love to see Depp move away from the qircky characters he's become and show us the full range of his potential.

I've loved all incarnations of Dark Shadows, yet this campy take on it doesn't bother me at all. Mainly because of the Burton/Depp combo, which I always love, plus the trailer actually made me laugh. And best of all, Eva Green looks smashing! :yup:

I don't know why, but this trailer somehow worked for me.
I now wouldn't mind catching the film.
& though not related to the trailer, the chinese voice in the end makes it magical.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=By8vfceBEjk

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Well, the reviews are tricling out ahead of its debut.

And they are not good.

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I don't believe Alice in Wonderland, and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory got good reviews either and I adored these two films. So still can't wait to see it.

Until I saw the trailer, I had no interest in this at all. After seeing the trailer I thought there might be something there for me, so long as it doesn't play up the comedy too much. Now, if that doesn't tell you this isn't going to be a film that most people want to see, I don't know what does. :D

You enjoyed Charlie & The Chocolate Factory? I didn't even know that was humanly possible.

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It's a lovely film and much closer to the original book. You talk like it's one of the worst things to come out in the film world...

Personally, for me, I hated it. I think it's mostly because of Burton's version of Willy Wonka. I'm a huge fan of the original and of Gene Wilder's Wonka, and Mel Stuart had a really great multidimensional mystique around the character, I felt in Burton's version all of that was stripped away, Depp's Wonka's insanity was more prevalent than his genius, and he was borderline obnoxious.

I also felt the rest of the cast of characters weren't nearly as charming as in the original either.

Watch this about what inspired Wonka! LOL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRc00kc08w

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O'lord. olol

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Someone needs to put Burton down like a sick puppy, dried up hack. Depp is ruining himself with continued collaborations, as evidenced by his occasional turns in other films.

Sweet lord that's harsh.

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Indeed, but I kind of agree. He's completely lost his soul, now he's stuck in remakes and impersonal material. Burton was never a great storyteller, but his heart was always in the right place. With Dark Shadows and his recent work, however, it looks to be completely absent. It's pretty clear he doesn't care anymore, so neither do I.

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Frankenweenie looks like it might be decent.

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A rehash of something he's already done? Point and case, really.

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I think he does care, you can tell from interviews with him and clips of him working that he cares about his films, even the later ones like Dark Shadows. I think to say he doesn't care is wrong.

I'm with Nausicaa. I think he cares too. I just think that he gets paid to do what he loves to do and has little interest in stretching himself as an 'artist'. If someone would pay me a fortune to do what I loved and hang out with my wife and best friends, I'd take them up on it as well.

Re: Tim Burton and Jonny Depp to make DARK SHADOWS
 

I saw it, not a big fan. Johnny Depp is really good as always but the rest was blah..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv-VaGZtMNg

Re: Tim Burton and Jonny Depp to make DARK SHADOWS
 

I love Tim Burton's movies and I love Johnny Deep as an actor but this time I fell disappointed. The beginning was okay but the I felt like someone has no idea what should be next and what can be funny.. The last fight with the whole family with the wolf matters, the orphan - too much for me.