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Number 173. July 26, 2007.
Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark
Shadows (DS), announces the following just-breaking news.
**** JOHNNY DEPP'S PRODUCTION COMPANY & GK FILMS PLAN TO DEVELOP NEW
DARK SHADOWS MOVIE FOR WARNER BROTHERS
Daily Variety will publish the following article in tomorrow's (July
27) edition:
Depp lights up 'Dark Shadows'
Graham King to produce Warner feature
By Michael Fleming
Johnny Depp is getting in touch with his inner vampire.
Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King's
GK Films to develop a feature based on the '60s daytime supernatural
sudser "Dark Shadows."
Depp has said in interviews that he has always been obsessed
with "Dark Shadows" and had, as a child, wanted to be Barnabas
Collins, the vampire patriarch of the series. The role was originated
by Jonathan Frid.
A rights deal just closed with the estate of Dan Curtis, the
producer/director who created the soap that aired weekdays on ABC,
from 1966 to 1971. Depp and King will produce with David Kennedy, who
ran Dan Curtis Prods. until Curtis died last year of a brain tumor.
Infinitum-Nihil' s Christi Dembrowski served as the point person on
the deal.
Over 1,225 episodes, "Dark Shadows" was a highly atmospheric, spooky
soap that featured gothic horror staples like vampires, monsters,
witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies. The show has a continuing
rabid fan base that populates Dark Shadows Festival conventions.
Numerous TV revivals of the series and pic adaptations have been
attempted over the years but none with as high-wattage a star as
Depp.
Depp, who is coming off "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"
and who just wrapped the Tim Burton-directed "Sweeney Todd," is next
expected to star in "Shantaram," a Mira Nair-directed adaptation of
the Gregory David Roberts novel that Depp, King and Plan B are
producing for Warner Bros. Depp, King and WB are also mobilizing to
make a film about the life of Alexander Litvinenko, with Depp poised
to play the former KGB agent, who was fatally poisoned.
**** SHADOWGRAM NOTE:
Johnny Depp's company and Dan Curtis Productions have been in
discussion for several years about the possibility of teaming for a
Dark Shadows film. The development of a script, which will now begin,
can take months and sometimes years. But hopefully, the process will
run smoothly with the possibility that filming could begin as early
as 2008, though even in a best-case scenario a finished film may not
appear before 2009. It is also much too early to speculate on any
further casting ideas, though there is a hope that some original DS
actors may be utilized in some capacity.
ShadowGram will follow-up with further developments in coming print
and online editions.
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