Today I want to share this for two reasons -
- one is that it mentions that "
Curse of Dark Shadows" (Only NoDS' working title even from the outset because it was even referred to as such when 16 Magazine announced the film) might be coming out in August - I didn't remember that we had even been informed it might come up that early - and that Michael Stroka is part of the cast.
Now, this wasn't the first time Michael Stroka was associated with the film because in the 16 Magazine announcement article it actually said "Mike Stroka is
almost definitely in the movie." Though bolding the word "almost" certainly left it open that he wouldn't be. It would seem that even back that early there was a real chance that whatever role Stroka might play, either the Hippie or Gregory, wouldn't end up being a part of the film (and frankly I think Gregory should have been a part of the film because without him much of the discussion in the Dining Room scene between Alex, Claire, Tracy and Quentin has no foundation to explain or understand it). As it turned out, neither the Hippie's nor Gregory's part of the script were even shot. So one has to wonder why Stroka's name was listed in the cast in that blurb. Though for all we know, right before or soon after production on the film began perhaps a press release came out that included Stroka's name and possibly not having been told otherwise, that's why they included Stroka's name. We'll probably never know...
And as usual, here's a much better version of the photo -
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- a photo that I've lost track of just how many magazines went with to initially publicize the film. It was most probably more than a dozen. Though what's interesting is it wasn't a part of the first article on the film after production had begun. That article appeared in Flip magazine soon after the daytime DS went off the air and it features stills from some of the 1810 flashback scenes as well as the seance:
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