I wish ppl would stop saying 'torture porn' - stupid media pigeon hole..

I liked the films but alot of the appeal was that it was a soap and that what mae it unique.

I think they shot it pretty much live at the time - hard to believe they did so many. I think i have the first 150 or so.

Depp, Burton re-team for Dark Shadows
 

December 04, 2008


Hollywood super-producer Richard D. Zanuck has told collider.com that Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's movie update of the cult gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (first announced last year) will be their next collaboration.

He said the pair will get cracking on the project next summer in London, after they've finished working on Alice in Wonderland.

The original Dark Shadows ran in the late '60s and revolved around a governess who arrived to work at a big mansion, only to find it inhabited by vampires, witches, monsters and all manner of other supernatural goings-on.

Johnny Depp was apparently obsessed with the show from a young age and has always been keen to play vampire Barnabus Collins.

Heard about this awhile ago...sounds interesting.

Hopefully it means that the original show will get some half-decent DVD releases - I've never seen it, but I've always wanted to. Looks really cool.

Pretty much every episode that's been released for syndication is available on DVD:

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=12287765...lection&page=1

As for the movie- I suppose if i has to be done Burton & Depp are the ones to do it. Depp even looks quite a bit like Frid and would be a good Barnabus.

Hence why I said "half-decent" - those sets are super hard to find for those of us that can't shop online. Plus, according to IMDB discussions at least, they're pretty worthless anyway.

You're basing ANYTHING on IMDB discussions? You should know better than that.

The fact that you can't buy online doesn't mean they're not "decent releases." They offer complete seasons, uncut, in the best quality available. This was a cheaply filmed daily soap- and many early episodes have been lost. Some have been recovered from various sources- sometimes home recordings shot from a a TV screen. Nothing's going to change that. The morons that haunt IMDB message boards are legendary for two things- arguing and being clueless.

Burton Gothic is a little too generic for Dark Shadows. I worry it will be exactly what I expect.

If Burton and Depp got in a brawl with Scorcese and Dicaprio, i wonder who'd win ?

I'd take Burton/Depp...Scorcese's too old.


I remember my mother watching this show all the time.

I wonder who would play Quentin?