[spoiler]I knew that there would just be a brief glimpse of the “original” actors in the party scene, so I was paying close attention. However, it seems to me, that if they were going to include them, get them to go to England (especially Jonathan given his age and, evidently, his health), they could have at least made sure to show each one for at least a couple of seconds, so that those who knew who they were would be sure to see them. Otherwise, what was the point of it? A few extra seconds to the movie certainly wouldn’t have hurt. I think they could even have given them a brief line, being welcomed to the party or something, but at least show them!![/spoiler]
[spoiler]There's been some stuff written that Burton supposedly wanted to do more with Frid but Frid just wasn't up to it. So perhaps, if there was more stuff shot with the other three original actors, it simply wasn't used in the final film in deference to Frid so that it wouldn't look like they had been given more to do than he was given. Who knows? Maybe we'll find out once the DVD/Blu-ray is released - and perhaps even a deleted sequence of two with the other three actors might even be included.[/spoiler]
Speaking of the DVD/Blu-ray release, it always seems to take me at least a week to get around to finish reading an issue of Entertainment Weekly, and last night while I was finishing up last week's issue I came across their DVD/Blu-ray review of
21 Jump Street. And the reason why I mention it is because the review made a specific point of reminding readers that the reworking of
21 Jump Street gets "what so many TV shows-turned-movies don't: that being reverential is death" because that quite often seems to be the case, both creatively and financially. And I know that has been mentioned in this topic before - but it was very interesting to be reminded of it again in a magazine that has being a commentator/analyser of film as one of its main missions. It's also interesting that EW loved both
21 Jump Street and DS as they gave both a B+.
And one other thing worth mentioning about the
21 Jump Street DVD/Blu-ray review is that it mentions that apparently only the Blu-ray version includes 20 deleted scenes. Hopefully for the sakes of DS fans who don't yet own Blu-ray players it won't be the case that the deleted scenes from DS will only be included on its Blu-ray - but even if that does turn out to be the case, we should only be so lucky that it will include as many as 20 deleted scenes (or dare I hope, even more). And it also includes "a Depp-on-the-set featurette" - something I certainly wouldn't mind Depp also doing for DS.
And finally, something else that was also interesting in the DVD section of last week's EW is that apparently Warner Brother's
Project X has been issued with both the 88 minute theatrical version and a 94 minute extended cut. An extended cut is something we can only pray for when it comes to DS!
51 days 11 hours 42 minutes 21 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!