Some of you may know that I'm a fan of the classic Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. I loved the original show, the films that spawned, the 1991 reboot, the books, the comics...if it's Dark Shadows, I've enjoyed it at some point.
There'd been talk of a new feature film reboot for years, but the project was stuck in turnaround for so long that I kind of brushed it off. But then, late last year, there was new buzz. And as 2011 came in and picked up steam, there was more buzz, and then outright news. Johnny Depp, a life-long DS fan, was attached to play his dream role of Barnabas Collins! Tim Burton, another fan of the show, to direct from a script by that most ghoulish of the hot young novelists, Seth Grahame-Smith! And then came a flood of casting news that was, by turns, thrilling and worrying, strange and perfect.
There'd been talk of a new feature film reboot for years, but the project was stuck in turnaround for so long that I kind of brushed it off. But then, late last year, there was new buzz. And as 2011 came in and picked up steam, there was more buzz, and then outright news. Johnny Depp, a life-long DS fan, was attached to play his dream role of Barnabas Collins! Tim Burton, another fan of the show, to direct from a script by that most ghoulish of the hot young novelists, Seth Grahame-Smith! And then came a flood of casting news that was, by turns, thrilling and worrying, strange and perfect.
