Well, I've had my first dream about the Depp/DS film. At least I think it was my first dream because I don't remember dreaming about the film before. And if it wasn't my first dream, I wish I didn't remember this one either because it was a nightmare. A doozie of a nightmare! And that's the only reason I'm posting about it.
It started off with someone involved with the film posting an entire scene online. Sounds good in theory, but it was this weird rambling scene involving Kristen Stewart (of the
Twilight movies), Oliver Platt (probably best known for his running characters on
The West Wing and
Nip/Tuck) and Deep Roy (the actor who played all the Oompa Loompas in
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) in some abandoned warehouse going on and on about how they had to leave town but they didn't know where they were going to go. It was like someone had written a really bad version of a scene out of a Harold Pinter play, and we had absolutely no idea what any of it had to do with DS.
But as bad (and boring) as that was to see, it was soon followed up by an official release of a scene that turned out to be what I suspect could be most fans' worst Tim Burton nightmare for the film: a musical sequence in which Barnabas' rejuvenation after attacking Willie is accompanied by singing and dancing skeletons and, wait for it, clowns! I can't even begin to describe how awful it was - but we were all completely horrified - though for all the wrong reasons. But the worst part of it was how emaciated Depp looked even after Barn had rejuvenated. We figured at least that had to be some sort of special make up effect - but the truth of it leads to the third part -
As if all of that wasn't bad enough, we next learned that Depp had been rushed from Pinewood Studios to a London hospital because he'd taken his green tea diet too far and had collapsed on the set. Burton was quoted as saying he didn't understand how it could have happened because Depp looked fine to him. But the truth of the matter was that Depp looked 10 times more emaciated than
Christian Bale did in The Machinist!!
Thankfully I woke up right then. And the first thing I asked myself was, "What the hell was that?!" But I may never get this one image out of my head: