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From Christopher Lee's Website
The adminstrator of the site has posted:
"He is working on the movie for sure. As for his role, I do not know."
Mr. Lee has appeared in other Tim Burton/Johnny Depp colaborations and is well known to horror fans. He played Willy Wonka's father in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," and the Judge in "Sleepy Hollow."
From Vogue
Terry's Tales
Ella Alexander 11 July 2011
LEGENDARY footwear designer Terry de Havilland leads a slightly less tame life today than he used to in he Seventies, but he's partaken in more a few one rock 'n' roll moments in his lengthy career - which this year hit the 50 year mark.
I'm doing the shoes for Tim Burton's new film, Dark Shadows, at the moment - designing for Michelle Pheiffer and Helena Bonham Carter. Every time I see a gorgeous woman, I just want to put a pair of my shoes on her."
From Contact Music
Chloe Moretz: 'Dark Shadows Is Amazing'
Chloe Moretz is having an ''amazing'' time with Michelle Pfeiffer on the set of new Tim Burton movie 'Dark Shadows'.
The actress - best known for the role of Hit Girl in 'Kick-Ass' - has been shooting the Tim Burton-directed film in the UK for the last two months and admits she is having fun creating the movie.
Speaking at the world premiere of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2' last night, Chloe told BANG Showbiz: "Right now I'm shooting Tim Burton's new film 'Dark Shadows' with Helena Bonham Carter. I play Carolyn, Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter. It's great, it's been amazing. We've been shooting for two months now, it's going really well."
Although currently busy with work - including the forthcoming 'Hugo Cabret' movie and indie project 'Hick' - the 14-year-old star admits she is hopeful there may be a 'Kick-Ass' sequel in the works.
She said: "Kick-Ass 2? I hope so. But I don't know anything about it yet. I heard a little bit about it. Maybe!"
'Dark Shadows' - which also stars Johnny Depp as lead character Barnabas Collins - is expected for release in 2012.
On the BBC interview with him, Alice Cooper has confirmed his appearance in Dark Shadows:
"It's called Dark Shadows... You didn't get this over here – this was like Coronation Street with vampires. And somehow it was a hit. Tim Burton saw this and said somehow we have to recreate this." Asked what role he would playing, Cooper said: "I don't know. I really don't know... We're shooting it Friday. I guess they should have told me by then."
From Pam found at On Location
May 21, 2011
According to a press release from Warner Brothers, “Dark Shadows” begins filming this week in London.
The movie is the big screen version of the cult classic television series, directed by Tim Burton.
The film’s all-star ensemble cast includes Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, and newcomer Gulliver McGrath.
The movie’s plot is set in the year 1752, as Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive.
Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.
Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.
Burton is directing and producing “Dark Shadows” from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith, story by John August and Grahame-Smith, based on the television series created by Dan Curtis. Also producing are Oscar(R) winner Richard D. Zanuck (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Driving Miss Daisy”), continuing his long association with Burton; Oscar(R) winner Graham King, (“Rango,” “The Departed”), continuing his collaboration with Depp; Johnny Depp, Christi Dembrowski, and David Kennedy. The executive producers are Chris Lebenzon, Nigel Gostelow, Tim Headington, and Bruce Berman.
The behind-the-scenes creative team includes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, Oscar(R)-winning production designer Rick Heinrichs (“Sleepy Hollow”), Oscar(R)-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (“Alice in Wonderland”) and editor Chris Lebenzon (“Alice in Wonderland”). The score will be composed by Danny Elfman.
“Dark Shadows” is being filmed entirely in England, both at Pinewood Studios and on location.
“Dark Shadows” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.
From Fan Carpet
Franklyn babe Eva Green set to join Johnny Depp in Dark Shadows
February 4 2011
French acting babe and former Bond girl Eva Green has reportedly locked in the female lead named Angelique Bouchard in the Tim Burton / Johnny Depp vampire film Dark Shadows.
In the original show, which Depp has professed to being a huge fan, Angelique is the woman who originally puts the vampiric curse on Barnabas Collins (Depp). Their back-story was explored in the mid-60s on the soap, and the pair developed an intense love connection that saw Angelique tormented by her feelings for her fanged creation.
Jackie Earle Haley and Bella Heathcote are in talks to join the cast, if all this pans out it is shaping up to being a steller cast.
With a script by Seth Grahame-Smith, Burton and Depp have been itching to get a film version made and with Warner Bros. fast tracking this into production due to Depp's bloated schedule Dark Shadows could be in front of the cameras in a couple of months.
From Thompson's Blog
Burton’s Dark Shadows Gets Green, Winterbottom’s Hardy Trishna Reinterpretation
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- Tim Burton’s reworking of 60s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows centers on vampire Barnabas Collins (to be played by Johnny Depp) and his escapades with witches, monsters, ghosts and the like. Eva Green will play the powerful witch Angelique, with whom Collins enjoys a love/hate relationship. Since her breakout role in Casino Royale, the French actress has gone somewhat unnoticed (she had a supporting role in 2007’s The Golden Compass). Now, she has Perfect Sense (see trailer below), boarding school drama Cracks (March 18), a Maria Callas TV biopic and more to come. Vampire expert Seth Grahame-Smith adapted Dark Shadows; he also wrote Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (fitting, since he wrote the novel).
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EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Depp To Start 'Dark Shadows' In April With Tim Burton Directing
By NIKKI FINKE | Thursday November 4, 2010 @ 12:38pm PDT
It's star Johnny Depp's and Tim Burton's hotly anticipated next collaboration and movie. Seth Grahame-Smith, who made his Hollywood entry writing novels that put a macabre twist to literary classics and historical figures, recently snagged the high profile job of writing the new draft of the 1960s gothic daytime serial featuring the juicy role of vampire Barnabas Collins whom Depp has had a long obsession wanting to play. The film has been slated to begin production in January but today was pushed back to April. Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and Graham King’s GK Films are producing along with Dick Zanuck. (It's Zanuck's 6th collaboration with Tim Burton.)
Warner Bros has been trying for several years to get to the starting line on this movie adaptation of the TV series that ran on ABC from 1966-1971 and had legions of fans frightened by the moody and atmospheric storyline. (Tim Burton May Push Back 'Dark Shadows' Start Date) Barnabas Collins (played by Jonathan Frid) was the central figure in the groundbreaking supernatural soap. Warner Bros purchased the film rights to the TV series from the estate of Dan Curtis (the creator, producer and director of Dark Shadows). As for Tim Burton's version, John August was the first writer hired to script the project. Grahame-Smith got the job on the basis of his own bestselling novel, Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
The new start date seems to complicate Depp's ability to co-star with Tom Hanks in director Kathryn Bigelow's Triple Frontier. She has been courting Johnny for the drama that she will direct in February for Paramount Pictures. The picture (also known as Sleeping Dogs) about Latin American organized crime is scripted by Mark Boal, Bigelow’s accomplice on the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker. Depp liked the role -- and the idea of teaming with Hanks -- but his participation was subject to working out scheduling issues. And since Johnny's production company is making Dark Shadows, that project won dibbs on Depp. I hear Mark Wahlberg could be in 2nd position.
From IGN
Dark Shadows Lives
Depp and Burton revive 1960s vamp.
November 4, 2010
by Scott Collura
We've been hearing about this project for years, and now it's finally happening. The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp redux of Dark Shadows will start shooting in the spring.
Deadline reports that the script by Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) will go before cameras in April, apparently pushed back from a previous January start.
The original Barnabas Collins
A new take on the supernatural soap opera from the 1960s, Dark Shadows will feature Depp as Barnabas Collins, a vampire who (presumably) doesn't sparkle. Warner Bros. previously had John August working on a script for the Burton film. And in fact, the August-scripted Monsterpocalypse was also in the running as Burton's next project, though obviously Dark Shadows won out.
Meanwhile, this development looks like it will conflict with Depp's intention to co-star with Tom Hanks in director Kathryn Bigelow's Triple Frontier. Mark Wahlberg may step in to replace Depp
From Love
Johnny Depp's Dark Shadows to Start Filming in February 2011
As Johnny Depp continues to arrange a wide variety of projects he's expressed interest in, it's been reported that his big screen version of the 1960s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows will begin shooting this February.
The film, which is going to be directed by frequent Depp collaborator Tim Burton, had originally had its screenplay written by John August. More recently, however, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter author Seth Graham-Smith has come on to the project and, at this point, has supposedly handed in his script.
In Dark Shadows, Depp will play 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins, sealed in his coffin by his father in 1795 and inadvertently unleashed in the present where he must adjust to an entirely new world while passing himself off to relatives in Collinwood, Maine as a cousin from England.
Explains Depp, "Tim and I have tossed the idea for Dark Shadows over the years. It was a TV program in the States in the late 60s and early 70s that I remember watching as a kid. I was obsessed with this character, Barnabas Collins, who was a vampire. I came to find out many years later that when he was a kid, Tim ran home like I did to watch that Gothic soap opera. It was a very strange thing back then.We looked at ways to go, story-wise. We've started to come up with something interesting."
Interestingly, this is not the first revival of Dark Shadows. In 1991 NBC aired a primetime version with Ben Cross as Barnabas, and in 2004 a CW pilot was produced starring Alec Newman as the vampire.
Additionally, one of the most interesting aspects of the show was that the setting, which began in the present, would frequently travel to the past with the cast playing their own ancestors. The first flashback was to 1795 and the "origin" of Barnabas, which went a long way in transforming him from the villain of the piece to a sympathetic vampire. One would imagine that some aspect of this origin story will be featured in Burton's version.
From Deadline
Seth Grahame-Smith On 'Dark Shadows' As Tim Burton Pic Gets Closer To Start Date With Johnny Depp As Vampire Barnabas
By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday July 15, 2010re
EXCLUSIVE: Seth Grahame-Smith, who made his Hollywood entry writing novels that put a macabre twist to literary classics and historical figures, has just snagged the high profile job of writing the new draft of Dark Shadows. The Tim Burton-directed adaptation of the 60s daytime serial will star Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas Collins. The film is slated to begin production in January at Warner Bros. Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and Graham King’s GK Films are producing.
Warner Bros has been trying for several years to get to the starting line on the movie adaptation of the TV series that ran on ABC from 1966-71 and had legions of fans frightened by the moody and atmospheric storyline. (Tim Burton May Push Back 'Dark Shadows' Start Date) Barnabas Collins (played by Jonathan Frid) was the central figure in the groundbreaking supernatural soap. As for Tim Burton's version, John August was the first writer hired to script the project, based on the Dan Curtis-created characters. Grahame-Smith will be writing a new take under Burton. He got the job on the basis of his own bestselling novel, Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Burton and Timur Bekmambetov bought that project out of their own money as producers, and I hear that Bekmambetov is likely to make the film his next directing effort.
pride-prejudice-and-zombies-1Lionsgate has optioned Grahame-Smith’s book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, with David O. Russell circling as director, and Natalie Portman starring as Elizabeth Bennett and producing a film that injects bloodthirsty zombies into Jane Austen’s mannered literature.
Grahame-Smith also co-created with pal David Katzenberg the MTV series The Hard Times of RJ Berger. Grahame-Smith's repped by WME.
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EXCLUSIVE: Producer Richard Zanuck Talks Dark Shadows Delays
May 17th, 2010
Visionary director Tim Burton and two-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp have collaborated together to make some of the most interesting and beloved films of their generation including Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow. In fact, the two are considered by many to be one of the best director and actor teams of all-time, so it should be no surprise that after their latest outing, Alice in Wonderland, grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide that the two would consider taking on the classic '60s soap opera, Dark Shadows as their next project. The series ran from 1966-1971 and was basically a soap opera that incorporated werewolves, zombies, monsters, witches, ghosts, time-travel, parallel-universes, and featured a vampire named Barnabas Collins in the lead role. Both Burton and Depp have gone on the record as saying that they were huge fans of the show growing up and Depp has even stated that he was obsessed with the character of Barnabas Collins as a child. At one point production on the film was scheduled to start as early as this summer with Burton directing and Depp playing the role of Barnabas Collins himself, however post-production on Alice in Wonderland and Depp's commitment to other projects seems to have delayed the production from beginning for now.
One man that knows both Burton and Depp very well is legendary Hollywood producer Richard D. Zanuck (Driving Miss Daisy, Jaws). Zanuck has produced three of the six live-action films that the director and the actor have collaborated on, which include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd and most recently Alice in Wonderland, which will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD on June 1st. Zanuck is set to reunite with Burton and Depp again on Dark Shadows and we recently had a chance to speak with the producer about the upcoming project. "That is still in the works but it's been delayed a bit," Zanuck confirmed. "We expected to do it much earlier, actually before Alice was finished. We must have been intoxicated when we thought that Tim could direct this picture while he was doing the post-production of Alice. Most of the post-production on Alice was done on computers and there were months and months of down time. At one point we thought that we could make it then and then we realized right away that Tim couldn't do it. Then that put it behind a couple of pictures that Johnny had lined up and right now we're waiting for him to finish The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and then he is going to take some time off and then do Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides next," explained Zanuck.
"It's unlikely, while everybody intends to make the picture, and we're still working on the script and all the rest, it's unlikely that we can start it earlier than the beginning of next year," he continued. "Johnny had committed and he has to do Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides first. He had a long-standing, firm, unchangeable contract to do that. That's a big project and he doesn't start that until later in the summer. So there you have it and we're waiting in line." Zanuck went on to say that the film was "still very much alive" and that they are currently working on the script. Finally, since the show ran for several seasons and incorporated so many different elements of sci-fi and horror we wanted to know which elements he was hoping to incorporate into the film and if the lead character would still be the vampire Barnabus Collins played by Johnny Depp? "Well the main character ... yes," answered Zanuck. "But one of the problems we've had with the script is that there are hundreds of episodes of this and boiling it down to an hour and a half or two hour movie with one story has been a real challenge and that's what we are doing now. But it will have all of the elements of the TV show. It won't be high camp, obviously. It won't be soap opera, which the show was. No, it will be scary, it'll be very funny and it will carry the Tim Burton stamp of uniqueness," confirmed Zanuck.
Dark Shadows is in development and stars Johnny Depp. The film is directed by Tim Burton.
From Collider
Producer Graham King Exclusive Interview: Talks EDGE OF DARKNESS, DARK SHADOWS, and THE TOURIST
by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub Posted:January 28th, 2010 at 11:23 pmGraham King producer image (1).jpgWhile you may not recognize the name Graham King, I’m pretty sure you’ve seen some of the movies he’s produced like The Departed, The Aviator, Traffic, and Blood Diamond. Also, with over a dozen projects listed in development on IMDb, he’s clearly positioning himself as a producer to follow.
Anyway, since he produced Edge of Darkness (which opens tomorrow), I recently got to sit down with this busy producer and we discussed not only his latest project, but all the other thinsg he has in development like Dark Shadows, The Tourist, Rum Diaries, Rango, LondonBoulevard , The Town, and Mel Gibson’s Viking movie. Also, since he has such a great relationship with William Monahan, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, I asked how he manages to keep working with them. It’s a great interview so hit the jump to check it out:
Since the interview is pretty long, here are some of the highlights on his projects in development:
Dark ShadowsSays they are still working on getting the screenplay right and they are NOT yet scheduled to start filming this year. He made it clear that they “don’t have a script yet.”
Rum Diaries
They test screened the movie last week in San Diego. He said, “it’s not just a movie for Hunter Thompson fans. It’s not Fear and Loathing. I think this has got a commercial appeal. Johnny’s just terrific in it.”
The Tourist
They start filming at the end of February in Venice and he’s the one that got Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie on the project as he gave the script to Depp.
Here’s our full conversation:
Graham King image (1).jpgCollider: Jumping on in, you’ve been producing a number of movies since 2000, well obviously before that, but you know according to IMDB.
KING: It was actually after that to be honest.
Was it? I’d say emerged in 2000.
KING: Right.
What was it that got you into the game? What made you get into producing?
KING: Well, I love film and I love the film business. And I don’t think there’s any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak. A little bit of the guy putting all the pieces together. And that’s what I love. I love the jigsaw of it all. You know you start with all these pieces all over the board and you try to put them all together in order. And I love that. And that’s really…I mean people say, “what does a producer do” and unless you’ve got a spare 3 or 4 hours, there’s so many definitions of a producer. How many films do you see have a lot of producer credits?
Well some of those credits are very questionable.
KING: Well, that’s what I’m saying. It’s…I’ve been through it, believe me. Boy, winning the Academy Award was unbelievable but I didn’t thank the guy who’s number one in my speech and I forgot because I didn’t get my speech out, which was Brad Gray, and he didn’t get a credit on Departed and I really wanted him to. I fully…you know kind of a big believer that he should have been there for what he did with that project. But to go back to what you’re saying producing, for me anyway, it’s coming up with material. It’s sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.
What’s your working relationship with Bill Monahan as you guys are doing a few projects together.
KING: Well, I think we have a great chemistry. I trust Bill implicably. And so when Bill says this is a really interesting concept. I’m going to go off and write it, he comes through every time. Every time. And you know it’s just so great to have that relationship with a writer because let’s face it one does spend a lot of time in a development world. And with Bill I don’t call it development, I call it pre-production because I know he’s going to come through. I put a lot of pressure on him saying that but he does and you know, for me I guess to share his vision in filmmaking and to have him go off and direct “London Boulevard” last year you know, I think is really special and if you know, I haven’t seen the film yet but if he comes through and suddenly here I am with this relationship with not just a writer but a great young director then we could do many things together in the future. You know, it’s a business of relationships, right? I mean that’s exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I’m lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again. I’d never met Mel Gibson before I did “Darkness”, before we sat down and had a meeting on this screenplay. And now we’ve finished the film and we’re doing this other film, you know, this Viking movie, which Mel is directing and Bill’s writing and Leo’s starring in. So that’s like my kind of putting everyone together, right?
I read all about it in Variety and it’s interesting though that you’re able to get a lot of these projects going because these are very large talents who obviously have a lot of options. And yet you guys are able to work again and again together. Could you talk about the dynamic of…are you one of these kind of producers that is very hands-off or when do you know when to get hands-on?
Graham King image.jpgKING: No, I’m hands-on. I’m on the set. Obviously if we do movies at once, then it’s hard to be everywhere, but I’m on-set. I was on-set average 85% of the time. I was on-set of “The Departed” every day. “Aviator” every day. “The Tourist” I’m going off to Venice to do “The Tourist” soon. So I’m really…it’s not being a control freak. It’s collaborating. It’s being, you know, you build a family and that’s how I love to make a movie. When we made “Aviator” I never forget, I was Marty, myself, John Logan and Leo-made all the decisions. And we had no studio and there was no one around. It was all done very friendly and it was great and that’s how I like to make a film using that model. So in getting and sitting with Martin Campbell at the monitor and will Mel talking about the role and talking about his character or scene, it’s the greatest. It’s the greatest for me.
Bill invited me to the set of “London Boulevard” and I think I might have been the only journalist there, or maybe was one of the only allowed…
KING: Oh he just told you that. Yeah, yeah. Right.
No, I really think I was actually. And I got to see Bill direct and he seemed very enthusiastic and very excited. And to mention what you were saying, there was nobody there looking really over his shoulder. It was very…
KING: Right, yeah. I wasn’t on that set that much because I was in Puerto Rico with Johnny Depp on the “Rum Diaries”, so you have to pick. As I say you spread yourself thin sometimes. Yeah, you know, Bill got it. I mean, I had so much confidence in Bill and he really came through. We surrounded him, I’m sure you saw, with a great crew. You know the best in the UK I think and you have to do that. And what Bill does great is he’s got a great disposition and he works really well with talent. And they really respected him. They didn’t look at him as a first time director. They looked at him as Bill Monahan, one of the best writers in the business. And a lot of writers go on to be great directors, right? So it wasn’t a movie I felt I needed to be there, although I’d liked to have been obviously on and off, but Bill just got along…he got on with it. My biggest worry going into that movie is will Bill get out of that habit of living writers hours, which is getting up at 4 in the afternoon and going to bed at 3 or 4 in the morning. I’m like you’re going to have to get up at 6 am buddy. We had like 3 alarm clocks with him and stuff like that. But seriously that was my big issue.
I got the vibe he was doing good. I definitely want to ask you about you have a ton of other projects in development. Something you just mentioned “Rum Diaries”, I’m very much looking forward to seeing this film. I’ve not really seen too much footage….the trailer, poster. Where is the promotional stuff for the movie?
KING: We’re not ready yet so we previewed it in San Diego last week. We did a test screening with a locked picture. So it’s the early stages of post, you know? I mean, it’s late stages of post but just before making the trailer and posters and everything else.
Graham King producer image (2).jpgHow did your preview screening go?
KING: It’s good. It was really good. The audience loved the movie. And it’s an amazing vibe in there and a great atmosphere. I loved it, so I think this is going to be really special. And it’s not just a movie for Hunter Thompson fans. It’s not “Fear and Loathing”. I think this has got a commercial appeal. Johnny’s just terrific in it. I’m sure you’ve seen some photos from it.
Yes.
KING: And he looks amazing. It’s not Johnny doing all the makeup and everything else.
I know you and Johnny have been talking about “Dark Shadows” for awhile. How is that progressing and what’s the update for fans?
KING: Just working on scripts. I know that Johnny is dying to do it and passionate to do it and I think working on getting the screenplay right. I mentioned to somebody in New York at a junket on “Young Victoria” that I would love to do it in the Fall but who knows, and then suddenly it’s all over the Internet that we’re shooting it in the Fall. That’s not the case. We don’t have a script yet.
It’s amazing how the Internet will take things. I like using direct quotes. But I interviewed Johnny and he explained his love of this character. How he grew up with him like this is a movie he clearly wants to make.
KING: Oh there’s no question.
You know, but with Tim, his schedule always gets so crazy and he’s still working on “Alice”, so…
dark_shadows_barnabas_image__1_.jpgKING: Right, right. Yeah, I mean I think “Alice’ comes out in March so I think if we can get the script right hopefully we can…they’ll do “Dark Shadows” later this year. So we’ll see what happens. Johnny’s doing Tourist for me and then I think he’s doing another movie and then hopefully “Dark Shadows”. It’s all scheduling you know? Obviously Tim and Johnny have such a special bond there, but until everyone feels that the script is in a good place. You know especially Johnny’s very, very aware of the fans of “Dark Shadows”. I actually hadn’t heard of it because we didn’t have “Dark Shadows” in the UK. So when I was growing up I hadn’t seen it. So when he first mentioned it to me I got a bunch of episodes on DVD and watched it and it’s…
Well, when you have one of the bigger movie stars on the planet saying he might want to do something, you know perhaps it can get made.
KING: Right.
Perhaps.
KING: Right, right.
Definitely want to touch on “The Tourist”, which is a project that I’ve been following for awhile and it seems like nothing was going right with casting. You’re talking about in/out, in/out with many different things. What was that process like for you and now that you finally have people…?
KING: Well I wasn’t involved. Spyglass had the movie. Gary Barber. And he called me one day and he said if you’re interested in this for you to get involved in it and do it. And I read it and I saw a movie-I saw a great movie. And I watched the original, Anthony Zimmer, the French movie and really liked that. And it was just Angelina when I got it. And there was all this talk on the Internet about Sam Worthington or this one and that one but none of it was real. It was just Angelina really wanted to work…really wanted to play this role and work with Florian, who obviously did “Lives of Others” and has got a lot of talent. And I sat with Johnny and sent Johnny the script and I said I think this will be really a great role for you. And went over to see him and we spoke about it and he read it and he saw the original and he said I love it. And he said it’s really, really special. All of a sudden I’ve got Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in a movie, you know? Which is a really fun feeling, right?
I think that’s one you’ll be on the set of.
Graham King producer image (3).jpgKING: Every day. Right me and 300,000 paparazzi.
Right. I can’t imagine. But that actually has to be a challenge when they’re two of the largest stars on the planet doing a movie together. The challenge of filming anything like that on location has to be there.
KING: Yeah. We’re having a lot of meetings about security and about…you know I don’t like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back, you know? I remember we would come out of the trailer of “Aviator” and they’d be pictures of Leo dressed as Howard Hughes in the press, and for me I don’t like that too much. So I don’t know how we’re going to deal with this in Venice, but we’re going to deal with it somehow someway.
Well, when do you start filming actually?
KING: The end of February.
So it’s coming up real close.
KING: Oh yeah. Around the corner.
You may have to institute the “Star Trek” security where they walk through tents to get to things.
KING: Right, right, right. I’m not worried about that so much, I’m more worried about helicopters in the sky and is it going to stop this filming?
I didn’t think about that. And also the paparazzi there are vicious there in Europe.
KING: Europe. England is horrendous. Horrendous.
Well I definitely want to ask…I obviously looked at IMDB about all the projects which are like 1,000 listed with your name.
KING: Really?
There’s a lot. What else do you think, for you, is bubbling up that you think could be going later this year?
KING: Well, the Viking movie I’d love to go. The one that Mel’s going to direct with Leo that Bill Monahan’s writing.
Is he? But is he writing it as we speak or has it been something he’s been working on?
Graham King producer image (5).jpgKING: Oh, no, no. We’ve been having meetings about this, about where to put the story. This isn’t based on one book. It’s based on a lot of research our guys have done to make a Viking movie. And then Bill, myself and Mel and Leo got in a room and kicked around ideas and 6-7 hours we sat around talking about it. And it was great. It’s one of the best meetings I’ve ever had-ever in this business.
Now when you do a meeting like that, do you record it to make sure you don’t forget about things?
KING: No, no. We have people writing stuff down but we don’t record it. You know, when Mel was driving that train…as I say for me it’s just a terrific meeting because we’re all in it to make this movie. So Bill is writing. He’s going through his head. He’s coming up…it doesn’t take Bill long to put stuff on paper. I think he has the formula in his head. And he’s doing that now. While he’s in post on a movie and while he’s writing another script and, you know?
I was going to say.
KING: He’s hot. When you’re hot you’re hot, right?
Yes he definitely is the word hot. Besides the Viking movie, do you have other stuff that you’re thinking about?
KING: I have, as you saw I guess, I have stuff in development that I really like. It’s just a matter of how many can I make at one time and I’ve got a really small company and 4-5 movies in post.
Okay.
The Town movie image BEN AFFLECK and JEREMY RENNER.jpgKING: I’ve got one starting. I’ve got “The Town” in post that Ben Affleck directed.
That’s another thing on my list to talk about, but you know.
KING: “The Rum Diaries”. “London Boulevard”. The animation movie “Rango” with Gore and Johnny. “Young Victoria” being released because I get involved in all that. And “Edge of Darkness” coming out. That’s 6 movies. So I’m really a one-man band. I have a great support group but I’m really a one-man band. So how many can I do at once? So I’m going to do “The Tourist” and then, you know this business. You’ve got to get scripts and we’ve got script writing on “Dark Shadows” and the Viking movie and you know everything else and off we go.
When do you think Ben will release a trailer or any sort of stuff from that?
KING: Oh, again he only wrapped a little while ago. I haven’t seen any cut footage of the movie, only dailies. And so I think he’s putting his first assembly together. So it’ll be awhile but I’m excited about that.
Cool. Thank you so much for giving me your time today.
KING: All right, buddy.
From CHUD
DARK SHADOWS MOVIE STAYS IN THE SHADOWS A BIT LONGERRecently the movie news world was abuzz with the idea that Dark Shadows, the movie version of the weird gothic vampire soap opera from the 60s, was heading to the big screen soon. The project has been in the works for a long, long time and Johnny Depp - a major fan of the property - has been set to play Barnabas Collins, with Tim Burton directing. The official word was always 'soon,' but late last year the word seemed to be 'shooting in 2010.'
Not so fast. Talking to producer Graham King at today's Edge of Darkness press day, I learned that the film is in no shape to shoot anytime soon. In fact, King said, they're still waiting for a script.
King was savvy and wouldn't say too much else - he knows how internet rumors (like Dark Shadows shooting this year) get started with careless slips of the tongue misconstrued by boneheads like me - but the fact that there is no script means that the movie (which isn't rushing to meet a date) might still have some time before it gets started.
That said, expect a script to possibly come into shape as Tim Burton finishes up his Alice in Wonderland duties, which are now mostly technical.
From Dread Central
Dark Shadows Confirmed for a Fall 2010 Start Date
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Over the past few years news stories about the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp version of Dark Shadows have popped up every couple of months, and today another one came along in which we finally got solid confirmation as to the film's start day. To that I can only say "Hooray!"Producer Graham King (whose credits include Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and The Departed) told Sci Fi Wire that the film will begin production in the fall with Depp portraying his childhood hero, Barnabas Collins.
Burton is still finishing post-production on Alice in Wonderland, which also stars Depp and opens March 5, 2010. King is already prepping production on Dark Shadows with screenwriters so that it is ready for Burton to shoot next fall. "We've been working on the script a lot, even though he's working on Alice," King said. "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 ... September or October of next year."
From SciFi Wire
Johnny Depp's Dark Shadows to begin next yearForget Team Edward and Team Jacob. We've heard that director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp are making a feature film version of the classic 1960s gothic TV soap opera Dark Shadows, and producer Graham King now confirms that the film will shoot in the fall, with Depp to play broody vampire Barnabas Collins.
"We're actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny," King said in a group interview Friday in Los Angeles, where he was promoting The Young Victoria.
Burton is still finishing post-production on Alice in Wonderland, which also stars Depp and opens March 5, 2010. King is already prepping production on Dark Shadows with screenwriters so that it is ready for Burton to shoot next fall.
Johnny Depp (left) will play Barnabas Collins for director Tim Burton
"We've been working on the script a lot, even though he's working on Alice," King continued. "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."
Dark Shadows was a daytime soap opera on ABC from 1966 to 1971 featuring Jonathan Frid as Collins. NBC tried a weekly prime-time series reboot in 1991. The original was famous for its gothic tone and setting.
King said the Dark Shadows film would have something to say in the post-Twilight world of emo vampires, but wouldn't spoil the new take. "This is going to be Tim Burton and Johnny doing a vampire movie, right?" King teased. Enough said.
From MTV
With 'Dark Shadows,' Tim Burton's Challenge Is 'To Capture That Weird Tone Of The Show'
Posted 9/2/09 by Adam Rosenberg"Dark Shadows" is a '60s soap opera about vampires. All things supernatural really, but vampires are a big focus thanks to Jonathan Frid's character Barnabas Collins. In an interview with MTV's Josh Horowitz, director Tim Burton -- who will soon turn to "Dark Shadows" with frequent collaborator Johnny Depp as its star -- said that it's too early to say if fans can expect a cameo from Frid in the adaptation.
Besides, Burton has bigger "Shadows" concerns than that. "One of the biggest challenges on ['Dark Shadows'] is to just capture that weird tone of the show," he said. For now, the focus is on Burton's unfinished "Alice in Wonderland," which hits theaters in March 2010. As the director reveals in the video below, he hasn't even seen the Caterpillar yet! "Dark Shadows" will come, in due time. But first, we all need to take a trip down the rabbit hole.
From The InsiderThe Dark Shadows Of Sexy Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp is hoping to take his favorite childhood television show Dark Shadows to the big screen. Depp and director Tim Burton, hope to turn the hit Vampire thriller 60s series, about a man with a vampire curse, into a movie franchise. The actor says, "I was obsessed with (lead character) Barnabas Collins. I have photographs of me holding Barnabas Collins’ posters when I was five or six." Burton, who has worked with Depp on hit movies Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is admitting work is already under way. The director says, "That’s the plan. There was something very weird about (Dark Shadows), it had the weirdest vibe to it. I’m sort of intrigued about that vibe. It’s early days on it, but I’m excited about it."
From the LA Times Golden DerbyCan Johnny Depp defy the curse of the vampires at the Oscars?
Johnny depp dark shadows 273695148 tv film newsIs Johnny Depp driving a stake through his hope to win an Oscar someday? The three-time loser ("Sweeney Todd," "Finding Neverland," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl") and Oscarless director Tim Burton are aiming to bring cult drama "Dark Shadows" back from the dead.
Don't they know that vampire tales are cursed in Hollywood? Oscar voters didn't nominate Bela Lugosi for "Dracula" and Emmy voters recently — and shockingly — snubbed Anna Paquin in "True Blood" just as they had Sarah Michele Gellar in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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Maybe Johnny has false hope because he starred in "Ed Wood" with Martin Landau, who won the Oscar for best supporting actor while stumbling around on screen in a vampire cape. Memo to Johnny: Landau wasn't pretending to be a real vampire as you'll do when assuming the role of 175-year-old blood-sucker Barnabas Collins. Landau played Bela Lugosi in later years as a pathetic Hollywood has-been hooked on morphine.
But maybe "Dark Shadows" could break the curse of the vampires at showbiz awards, after all. Joan Bennett got nominated for her performance as a grande matriarch in the daytime TV soap version in 1968. She lost, but she got nominated!
Johnny Depp watched the highly addictive Gothic soap at home as a kid, "I was obsessed with Barnabas Collins," he admits. "I have photographs of me holding Barnabas Collins posters when I was five or six."
Depp and Burton are busy now gearing up to unveil "Alice in Wonderland," but Burton assures the L.A. Times that they'll team up for a feature film version of "Dark Shadows" in the future.
"That's the plan," Burton says. "There was something very weird about that, it had the weirdest vibe to it. I'm sort of intrigued about that vibe."
From Celebuzz
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Talk 'Dark Shadows'
by Celebuzz on Jul. 31, 2009 06:00 AM / 5 CommentsRobert Pattinson is about to get some competition in the hot-vampire department.
Frequent collaborators Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are gearing up to film a big-screen version of the mid-'60s soap opera Dark Shadows, featuring Depp as the vampire Barnabus Collins, and the two have been letting details about the project drip out in various interviews lately.
Depp tells Collider.com that playing 175-year-old vampire Collins has been "a lifelong dream for me," ever since he became infatuated with the show as a child. "I was obsessed with Barnabas Collins," Depp recalls. "I have photographs of me holding Barnabas Collins posters when I was five or six."
Burton, meanwhile, dished to the Los Angeles Times about his own impression of the original series. "It had the weirdest vibe to it. I'm sort of intrigued about that vibe," Burton noted.
As for the public's enduring interest in vampire stories, Burton theorizes, "It's like any great fable or fairytale, it's got a power to it...There's something symbolic about it that touches people in different ways."
At this year's Comic-Con, Burton said that he hopes to begin work on Dark Shadows as soon as he's finished working on his Alice in Wonderland remake—which also stars Depp, as the Mad Hatter. If the timing works out, who knows? Dark Shadows might even go up against Breaking Dawn, the final installment in the Twilight saga.
That would definitely give vampire fanatics something to sink their teeth into.
From the Examiner
Johnny Depp: pirate, vampire, and everything in between
July 30, 3:11 PMJohnny Depp is a very busy man.
Not only is he knee-deep in promotion and post-production for Alice in Wonderland, Depp will once again be joining forces with Tim Burton in the vampire flick Dark Shadows, targeted for a 2011 release with filming beginning in 2010. Burton confirmed to the LA Times that Dark Shadows will be his next project as soon as he wraps up post-production on Wonderland.
Burton described the 1960s vampire soap opera as having “the weirdest vibe to it,” and it most certainly will again with Burton and Depp at the helm. The prolific Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil, has optioned the film, and Depp will be taking the lead role of the vampire Barnabus Collins, which he confessed was a “lifelong dream.”
According to IMDb, Depp’s company has over a dozen films in development right now, including 2011’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, an adaptation of Brian Selznik’s Caldecott-winning novel.
Depp himself is immersed in a variety of acting roles. On the heels of Public Enemies comes Wonderland, The Rum Diary, The Lone Ranger, and Rango (Depp voices the title character). He’s also rumored to be taking part in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, In the Hands of Dante, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, and Sin City 3.
And who can forget the incomparable Jack Sparrow? Depp is reprising his role in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, which is currently in the script-writing stage and which, according to Disney’s Head of Production Oren Aviv, will begin filming in 2010.
The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters.
This “reboot” will apparently include backstory on Depp’s eccentric character and will possibly be the first in a new trilogy, rather than a sequel to the first. Either way, Pirates fans will be lining up to see it.
As if all this wasn’t enough, Depp is also rumored to be taking on a Frank Sinatra biopic produced and directed by Martin Scorsese. Of course, nothing is confirmed, and there is also a rumor that the role will be taken by Leonardo DiCaprio, so Depp might not end up being connected to the film at all. Then again, there are the other members of the Rat Pack to consider…
Whether Depp characterizes the crooner or not won’t diminish the impact his career has made on modern cinema. Johnny Depp is undisputably one of the best actors of his generation with more than two dozen awards under his belt. All he needs now is an Oscar; maybe one of his many upcoming ventures will get him there... if he doesn't burn out in the attempt.
From MTVEXCLUSIVE: Tim Burton Says 'Dark Shadows' Will Shoot Next Year
Posted 7/21/09 5:00 pm ET by Eric Ditzian in News
Tim BurtonAs Tim Burton told us last week, he’s spending “every waking moment” on his Johnny Depp-led adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland.” The movie will serve up an ambitious melding of live-action, motion-capture and computer animated element. As soon as he’s finished with that mammoth undertaking—the film is due in theaters early next year—he’ll begin work on another Depp-focused project, one that has teased and tantalized movie nerds for years but which, finally, finally, is going to get underway in 2010: “Dark Shadows.”
“That’s something that [Depp and I] both love and are excited about,” the director told MTV News. “When I’m done with this I’ll definitely focus on that.”
Burton's comments jibe with what Depp said during the “Public Enemies” junket a few weeks ago. He told MTV's Josh Horowitz that he’ll be shooting “Shadows” and a fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean" film next year. There's also the fact that in March, an executive in Depp's production told us that the film "is very active" and "the studio will be making some announcements regarding it pretty soon. Very soon, probably.”
“Shadows” will be based on the ‘60s soap opera of the same name, an ABC daytime TV show that incorporated elements of gothic romance, science fiction and supernatural phenomena like ghosts, zombies and vampires. Depp will reportedly play vampire Barnabas Collins.
“It’s another challenge because it was such a weird soap opera,” Burton explained. “Part of the energy of it was the tone and weirdness of it. That’s our challenge, to try to capture that vibe.”
That vibe was part campy melodrama, part dead serious—and decidedly odd—storytelling. Which direction does Burton plan on going?
“It’s always a fine line,” he said. “That remains to be seen. That’s a question and a challenge we talk about a lot. I haven’t arrived at the answer. That’s definitely a main issue, the tone and the vibe of it because as we all know melodrama can cross over. It’s one of the more interesting things about it.”
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