One of the weirdest soaps ever to stumble the air is Dark Shadows , a late-1960s day-after-day story that spent 6 month as a typical medieval melodrama and then surprised viewers by abruptly introducing ghosts , ancient deity , a sexy coquette discover Barnabas ( see ) , fourth dimension travel , and parallel population . Dan Curtis ’ iconic serial publication aerate for 5 years on ABC , rack up almost 1100 minute of video packed with monstery goodness . And now Tim Burton is set to make a movie interpretation of it , with Johnny Depp as Barnabas . Can it really be done ?
The soap - opera buff over at Collider yesterday superintend to get manufacturer Richard D. Zanuck to confirm that Dark Shadows is Burton ’s next projection , filming next class in England . Depp , who owns the right hand to the series , has said many multiplication that his greatest fantasy as a kid was to become Barnabas .
But how will the squad that brought you Sweeney Todd manage to cut down all that TV into a digestible chunk ? Obviously they ’ll have to choose one of the miniskirt - arc from the show to focus on ( countenance ’s desire it ’s from the sequence where Barnabas journey back in time to an alternate 19th 100 ) . Or maybe they ’ll just come up with a brand - new plot arc take Barnabas . That might be the undecomposed way to go , with just a few nods to the original thrown in for die - difficult fans .
More significantly , will interview go for it ? By the time this motion-picture show comes out , everybody may be suffering from vampire weariness . Probably the 2d Twilight movie will be in theater , and HBO ’s honest Blood will have corner the market on smart - aphrodisiacal vamp action . Burton will also be contend with another gothic , old - school vampire tale : Mike “ Hellboy ” Mignola ’s Baltimore , aim by David “ Dark Knight ” Goyer .
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Previous attempts to reawaken the sleeping show have also been unsuccessful . When Curtis rebooted the series in the former nineties as a weekly tale of the supernatural on NBC , it was call off after just a few months . A 2004 pilot for a WB version of the show was never pick up .
But let ’s not get gloomy about this . There ’s plenty of room for more vampire stories , and Dark Shadows is n’t just vamp - focused anyway . It ’s more like The Supernatural , range from narration of spook to alternate reality . And let ’s face it : This account was pretty much made for Burton , who is the master of dark clique .
Zanuck Spills It About Dark Shadows[via Collider ]
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