Post by PeanutButterJunkie on Jul 28, 2007 3:00:07 GMT -5
I've seen this on imdb and various other Johnny boards. I have to admit I've never even heard of this show but apparently a lot of people love it. I should watch TV more. Or not.
www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=53d265c4-2158-45f0-a148-1f22e01e13bd
Depp Steps into Shadows
by Josh Grossberg
Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:15:51 PM PDT
Johnny Depp has never shied away from dark films like Dead Man, The Ninth Gate, Sleepy Hollow and From Hell. Now he's really found a role he can sink his teeth into.
The actor is teaming with Warner Bros. on a movie version of the classic supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, with Depp playing lead vampire Barnabas Collins.
Depp has long counted himself among the legion of Dark Shadows devotees and has stated in past interviews that he's dreamed of playing Barnabas ever since he was a kid.
Through their respective production companies, Depp and Graham King purchased the rights to the spooky ABC serial from the estate of the show's mastermind, Dan Curtis, according to Variety.
The groundbreaking Dark Shadows ran for 1,125 episodes from 1966 to 1971, chronicling the strange goings-on around the mysterious Collins family in their estate in Maine. Populated by myriad macabre characters, including vampires, witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies, the show spawned a cult following, numerous fan conventions and various attempts to resurrect the program after the network put a stake in it.
Curtis directed House of Dark Shadows, a 1970 movie adaptation starring Jonathan Frid, who originated Barnabas in the series. Curtis later updated Shadows in 1990 with a new TV series that lasted one season with Ben Cross in the immortal role.
Another short-lived remake, not supervised by Curtis, featured Alec Newman as the head vampire and aired in 2004.
Warners is currently teaming with the Pirates of the Caribbean star on a biopic about the life of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent and expatriate whose poisoning last November has poisoned relations between Great Britain and Russia.
As for Depp, he and Tim Burton recently wrapped production on the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Sweeney Todd. Next up for the actor is the lead role in Mira Nair's Shantaram.
The Depp news was just one tidbit to emerge from Warners' presentation at Comic-Con in San Diego on Friday, as the studio offered previews of some of its highest profile 2008 releases.
www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=53d265c4-2158-45f0-a148-1f22e01e13bd
Depp Steps into Shadows
by Josh Grossberg
Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:15:51 PM PDT
Johnny Depp has never shied away from dark films like Dead Man, The Ninth Gate, Sleepy Hollow and From Hell. Now he's really found a role he can sink his teeth into.
The actor is teaming with Warner Bros. on a movie version of the classic supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, with Depp playing lead vampire Barnabas Collins.
Depp has long counted himself among the legion of Dark Shadows devotees and has stated in past interviews that he's dreamed of playing Barnabas ever since he was a kid.
Through their respective production companies, Depp and Graham King purchased the rights to the spooky ABC serial from the estate of the show's mastermind, Dan Curtis, according to Variety.
The groundbreaking Dark Shadows ran for 1,125 episodes from 1966 to 1971, chronicling the strange goings-on around the mysterious Collins family in their estate in Maine. Populated by myriad macabre characters, including vampires, witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies, the show spawned a cult following, numerous fan conventions and various attempts to resurrect the program after the network put a stake in it.
Curtis directed House of Dark Shadows, a 1970 movie adaptation starring Jonathan Frid, who originated Barnabas in the series. Curtis later updated Shadows in 1990 with a new TV series that lasted one season with Ben Cross in the immortal role.
Another short-lived remake, not supervised by Curtis, featured Alec Newman as the head vampire and aired in 2004.
Warners is currently teaming with the Pirates of the Caribbean star on a biopic about the life of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent and expatriate whose poisoning last November has poisoned relations between Great Britain and Russia.
As for Depp, he and Tim Burton recently wrapped production on the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Sweeney Todd. Next up for the actor is the lead role in Mira Nair's Shantaram.
The Depp news was just one tidbit to emerge from Warners' presentation at Comic-Con in San Diego on Friday, as the studio offered previews of some of its highest profile 2008 releases.
