It's official: Dark Shadows returns as a film with Johnny Depp

[Midnite]

as MB and I know all too well from the number of times a Googlebot meets up with our security, their bots return to check sites quite often.

There's no longer a Google alert for the Empire site.

[Countess]

My apologies if this has already been posted.  There's a fascinating article about the casting for the new DS movie at http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/66626-casting-shadows/  Some interesting ideas for who should play our faves.

Countess

(link edited by admin; also, see reply #695)

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I LOVE this open letter to Tim Burton! Check out: Barnabus Collins must have a penis
(And for a change I'm completely willing to overlook the misspelling of Barnabas.  )

Considering that so, so many of Barnabas' decisions/motivations/mistakes on the original series were made with/driven by/caused by his penis, it's completely inconceivable to imagine the Barnabas character without one. 

[Midnite]

OMG, I love that letter!

[madscntst]

Oh my gosh-- that was Brilliant!!  And oh, so true.  Thanks for finding that, MB!

P.S. It's not a certainty, but most folks suspect that Johnny has actually - gasp - quit smoking recently.  If not, he has cut way, way down. He used to be a horrible chain-smoker, but nobody's seen him with a ciggie, even in paparazzi shots, for nearly 2 years.  And he has spoken about trying to quit or cut down for his kids' sake.  So if so, good for him 

[rainingwolf]

Amazing letter! I loved it! It gave me shivers.....

[Mysterious Benefactor]

The most interesting in the latest batch of articles that still continue to pop up regarding Richard Zanuck's recent remarks.

Check out: Suave Vampire is Back in Depp’s “Dark Shadows”


(It's also interesting to read the totally surprised reactions from people who were so sure Depp was going to be in the next Batman movie - even though that was denied over and over again by numerous sources - now that Eddie Murphy has supposedly been cast. (And I say "supposedly" because who knows if that's even true or not?  )  The people who honestly believed those rumors about Depp, despite the emphatic denials, will apparently believe almost anything they read on the Internet.  )

[tragic bat]

I think that open letter is sexist, homophobic, immature, and stupid (but as the title says, the author has no problems with being that way.)  Claiming that just because some people don't give a damn about someones pathetic, false view of "masculinity" means they aren't sexual and don't have organs is ridiculous.

[Nancy]

That open letter is hilarious! Thanks for finding and posting it!

[ProfStokes]

I rather liked the bit about Barnabas's "two-room mansion" 

ProfStokes

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I can appreciate your point, tragicbat - but I have to confess that I simply approached the article from the Barnabas angle. We've often commented here on the forum that all too frequently Barnabas doesn't use the head on his shoulders to make his decisions and that a decidedly below waist part of his anatomy rules. From that POV, the article is spot on.

[Gothick]

And here's a perfect example:

Barnabas (looking on with palpably aching desire at comatose Roxanne, obviously fitted with bullet-bra from Grayson's Playtex gig):  "Oh! ... she is ... so beautiful!"

Julia (rolls eyes): *multiple expletives deleted*

[Mysterious Benefactor]

One can only hope, as this article says, that Depp will make his Barnabas "A mysterious, mature Don Juan DeMarco – with fangs."   

Check out: Loving True Blood in Dallas: 'Dark Shadows' with Johnny Depp filming London summer '09
(Though people who don't really have their facts straight probably shouldn't share things like the info in the first comment.    Rosecliffe is a beautiful house, and it has been a filming location for many projects - but Collinwood it is not.)

[Doug]

Are they talking about the Rosecliffe house in Newport, RI ?

[Midnite]

Rosecliffe is a beautiful house, and it has been a filming location for many projects - but Collinwood it is not.)

The heart-shaped staircase isn't Gothic enough?