Hey, look. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are doing another movie together! In other news that won’t surprise anyone, the sky is still blue and Russell Brand‘s voice is still annoying.
Anyway, according to Deadline, the actor is set to re-team with Burton for the long-gestating film adaptation of Dark Shadows, a movie based on the 1960s gothic daytime drama centered on vampire Barnabas Collins. It will begin shooting in April. Seth Grahame-Smith, author of the bestselling Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (which is getting its own adaptation), is writing the screenplay.
This news isn’t all that surprising. The dynamic duo have been set to team up for Shadows for quite some time; the only thing that wasn’t sure was a start date (and a green light, but we never doubted that it would get one). What is surprising is that, because Shadows is now set to shoot in April, this complicates his role with Tom Hanks in Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming Triple Frontier (a.k.a. Sleeping Dogs), set to begin in February. Nothing is official yet and he may be able to shoot his part in that pic before April if he is locked, but it’s looking unlikely.
And man, talk about a major bummer. I know Depp and Burton like to make movies, but come on. This is, what, the millionth time they’re working together? In Frontier, Depp was set to star alongside Hanks for the first time. Plus, he’d be working with newly-minted Oscar winner Bigelow. He’s a chameleon of a performer, so I was really excited to see what he would come up with for a film that appears to be much different that anything he’s ever done. And honestly, how many more weird and crazy versions of Edward Scissorhands can they make? Ugh.
Source: Deadline
