But we have no concrete evidence that Thomas McDonell will play Barnabas at the time he is cursed? It's all speculation at this point?
Exactly. And ClevverTV even says, "We wonder if..." - they're not reporting it as fact but as their own speculation. And it might not even be their own speculation because, as I mentioned a month or so ago, ClevverTV's reports often seem to regurgitate what's reported on various Internet entertainment sites, and I definitely saw at least one other site speculating that young Barnabas will be a vampire. But as Cousin_Barnabas pointed out, vampires don't age. (Well, unless they're Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's version of the story - but it seems highly unlikely that the Depp/DS film will be going that route because that would entail Thomas McDonell playing Barnabas more than Depp would, as Depp would simply be Barn before his first drink of blood. Ain't gonna happen.
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It's worth pointing out again that when it comes to a lot of these entertainment sites we really need to take what they report with a grain of salt (if not a mountain) because they'll often add in their own speculations but present them as looking like facts. And quite sadly, there are times when they don't bother to check supposed facts or they even outright misinterpret facts. (And for the latter two one need look no further than the recent debacle over the upcoming Streisand remake of
Gypsy when numerous sites reported it was dead but it's still very much alive. Sound familiar?
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