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Current Talk '24 I / Re: It's official: Dark Shadows returns as a film with Johnny Depp
« on: May 03, 2011, 04:06:49 PM »
I haven't been posting about the latest additions to the behind the scenes creative personnel on the film because it's gotten to the point where they're adding a lot of positions where many DS fans probably don't pay much attention to who handles them. However, I keep forgetting to mention that they've added some prosthetic technicians to the Make Up Department. And while that's not surprising because every horror movie seems to use prosthetics these days, it did get me to thinking - especially considering that Joel Harlow is the department head. Why is that possibly significant? Well, because he worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and as anyone who's even just seen photos from that TV show knows, the vamps in the BtVS universe looked very different from what we're used to in the DS universe. So, I'm wondering if instead of just fangs and/or red eyes, the vamp(s) in the Depp/DS film might not also have a look similar to what was done on BtVS? Not that the simple fact that Harlow worked on BtVS means that they will. But combining that fact with the Make Up Department's prosthetics personnel *could* be a *hint* that we *might* want to prepare ourselves for a very different type of vampire look from what we're used to seeing...