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Number 227. November 6, 2010
Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS), announces the following breaking news in this Online News Update "bulletin."
**** WARNER BROS. ANNOUNCES EXPECTED START DATE FOR NEW "DS" MOVIE
**** JIM STORM IN PLAY
**** CHRIS PENNOCK IN PLAY STAGED READING
---- PRODUCTION TO START ON NEW DEPP / BURTON DS MOVIE
SG announces: After 3 years of development, Warner Bros. studio has confirmed that the new DS movie starring Johnny Depp as vampire Barnabas Collins will begin filming in April of 2011, under the direction of frequent Depp collaborator Tim Burton.
Seth Grahame-Smith, author of the recent best-selling novel "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter," has completed the approved script for DS, which will include familiar characters from the original 1966-71 TV series and new story elements as well.
Casting has not yet begun for the film but will begin soon as part of the pre-production process. SG will announce and update.
Depp's next film, being released in December, is THE TOURIST, co-starring Angelina Jolie. There has been speculation that Jolie could possibly be considered for the role of Angelique, the witch who cursed Barnabas as a vampire in the 1700s. It also is possible that actress Helena Bonham-Carter may appear in the DS movie. The girlfriend of Tim Burton, Carter has appeared in previous Depp-Burton productions, including SWEENEY TODD and ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Prior to filming DS, Depp will be shooting the next installment of his Disney movie series PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. Among his other credits with Burton are SLEEPY HOLLOW, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, and ED WOOD.
In July 2007, SG reported when the planned film was first publicly announced. SG also has noted that Depp is a childhood DS fan, along with his sister, who is a producer on the upcoming film. It will be in production for several months and is not expected to be released before the end of 2011, or sometime in 2012. It has not been definitely announced yet if the movie will be presented in 3D.
It is hoped some original DS actors might be seen in cameo roles.
SG PREMIERE-ANNOUNCES:
DS composer "Bob Cobert's original theme will most certainly be integrated into the musical score of the new movie, though the retired composer will not be directly involved."
SG's Official Online News Updates and SG print issues will provide more breaking announcements as further confirmed details become available in the weeks and months ahead.
Variety 11-5 has the following article.
"Depp, Burton reunite on 'Dark Shadows'
Warner Bros. to distribute project long in the works
Warner Bros. has slotted its long-simmering "Dark Shadows" project for a spring production start with Johnny Depp starring.
Depp has been attached to star and produce with Graham King's GK Films and Depp's Infinitum Nihil for the past three years with Tim Burton expected to direct. Richard Zanuck, Christi Dembrowski and David Kennedy are also producers.
Seth Grahame-Smith penned the script.
Kennedy brought the project to Depp from the estate of Dan Curtis, the producer-director who created the vampire soap opera that aired weekdays on ABC from 1966 to 1971 with 1,225 episodes.
Studio hasn't set a release date for the big-screen project."
--- JAMES STORM IN NEW PLAY
Jim (Gerard Stiles) stars as "Dunn" in the new play PHANTOM LUCK, now at The Lost Studio in Los Angeles, through 11-28.
LA Times review 11-4: "Fevered landscapes of the mind are a specialty of playwright John Steppling, whose new play uses the seedy, obsessive terrain of the professional gambler as a jumping-off point to explore the lives of loners who haunt society's interstitial cracks " in "a fiercely uncompromising deconstruction of a heist caper." The playwright does not "settle for the conventional elements of the crime genre. From the opening monologue — a meditation on statistical odds and the Monte Carlo fallacy delivered by a grizzled gambler named Dunn — the play's existential subtext becomes its primary subject matter." Dunn and his ex-con partner-in-crime present "street-smart discourses on Old Las Vegas, horse racing and the origins of face cards (that) resonate with timeless themes of coincidence and luck, aging and mortality, and multicultural theology." The play is "heady stuff, not for the intellectually incurious."
PHANTOM LUCK is at The Lost Studio, 130 S. La Brea Blvd., Los Angeles, with evening performances Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to 11-28. Tickets: $20. (323) 933-6944 or
www.gfnation.wordpress.com.
--- CHRIS PENNOCK IN PLAY READING
SG regrets that I received the press release for Chris' appearance too late to make a pre-announcement. General information follows and the upcoming new SG #119 print issue will report.
Press release 11-5: Chris participated in "the first West Coast staged reading of the award-winning play SHADES at the Women in the Arts Festival" in Palm Springs, CA 11-6, produced by the LA Women's Theatre Project." The play "is about the effect war has on those who come home and how men and women cope with issues and communicate differently."
Marcy Robin
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