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Current Talk '24 I / Re: It's official: Dark Shadows returns as a film with Johnny Depp
« on: September 11, 2009, 10:18:02 PM »
Following Alice in Wonderland with Frankenweenie was the originally announced plan back in '07, but Burton changed his mind when it was expected that the DS film would begin production in late summer of this year. But that's not the case due to how long AiW's postproduction is taking, and since Depp won't be available due to Pirates 4 going into production in April, I guess he went back to the original plan. And that seems like a logical thing to do considering that he's utilizing some stop motion animation in AiW, so he's already got the needed hardware/software in place for Frankenweenie.
If one thinks about it, it's really no different than what we've been anticipating for a while now because we've pretty much known that the DS film wasn't going to go into production until after Pirates 4. And rather than waiting to do Frankenweenie until after DS, Burton probably feels it's better to do it while he has things in place and presumably the time to fit it in while Depp is elsewise occupied.
If one thinks about it, it's really no different than what we've been anticipating for a while now because we've pretty much known that the DS film wasn't going to go into production until after Pirates 4. And rather than waiting to do Frankenweenie until after DS, Burton probably feels it's better to do it while he has things in place and presumably the time to fit it in while Depp is elsewise occupied.