I just have to add that BarnaDepp makes me think of one of Edward Gorey's drawings... a point of favor in my book...

I am quite curious as to whether Julia will appear only briefly in the movie, given Miss BC's original statement that it was going to be quite a minor role..  I think she was just having a little joke...

G.

I could be wrong, but I don't think they started referring to the Devil or Prince of Darkness/Fire on the series until Cassandra showed up in the Spring of 1968.  While Cass is incanting over her favorite Dr. Lang doll/pincushion, at one point she exclaims "my powers were given to me by the Devil himself!"  If you go back and watch the original 1795 episodes, Angelique's original spells are all more like hedge witchcraft, involving herbs, object links belonging to the person, etc.  Demonology enters the picture when she creates the bat to be her servitor and spy on Barnabas but even then I don't recall her mentioning the Devil, though Hell may have been mentioned.   

I could never understand why they started up with the Satan stuff in 1968 but then it hit me:  Rosemary's Baby was big news so the writers decided to introduce that element.

I guess that even though the Diabolos sequences come across today as atmospheric but on the edge of a little TOO extreme (GREAT voicework from the guy who played Diabolos), the production unit never again revisited this particular terrain.  But it was enshrined forever in our memories because THESE were the episodes chosen for the series' Viewmaster reel. 

In the booklet that came with the reel, incidentally, "Diabolos" is referred to as Balberith.  I don't know whether that came from a DS script, or if whoever wrote the booklet came up with that name themselves.  There's a Wikipedia entry on Baal-berith (who, like many demons, started out life as a Canaanite Deity) but I quite like this site where he is described as "chief secretary of Hell"... which fits rather well with the DS representation of him, don't you think?

http://www.whiterosesgarden.com/Nature_of_Evil/Demons/List_of_Demons/B_contents/baalberith.htm

cheers, Gothique (rhymes with "eek!")

Janet darling, Brace yourself:  it's Willie.
In this redaction, the characters of Willie and Matthew Morgan appear to have been combined.

Don't you just LOVE remakes??

cheers, Steve

MB honey, did you scroll down and read the blurb for each character below the photo? There's a LOT of new information presented... it's from an interview with Seth something-or-other, the screenwriter...

The blurb has mostly minor character details, but there are a couple of spoilery bits...

G.

Today he has added his written outline for the graphic novel scenario.  I just made a print of it.  From glancing at it, it seems to be a mixture of the original series (dateline 1969/1796) and the little synopsis Warners released for the Burton/Depp feature--e.g. this novel has Barnabas returning to a semi-ruined, dilapidated Collinwood with "strange decor."

He said it's not likely to be up on his deviantart page for long, so if you're curious to read it, don't hesitate.  The text is a PDF file you download from Googledocs so you need a Google/whatever log-in.

G.

For those who wish to see them, there are some great clips of scenes with Louis in his Langley role in AMC up on Youtube. I think if you just search Langley Wallingford they come up.

It's too bad that Grayson as Euphemia, in turban and cape, did not show up one day on AMC to confront Louis as Langley.  Two such arch, baroque characterizations should have shared screen time at least once.  Ah well, we can dream.

G.

I love this!  There's text (he may have added it after you saw the page, MB) where he describes his idea for the introduction of Angelique in the storyline and mentions that he weaves in the original Sabrina storyline in which Cassandra is "a demented-looking vegetable in a wheelchair."

And Hippie-Buzz leads a seance.

I so want to see this.  This is the kind of redaction of elements of the original plus new ideas that would evoke the essence of DS but be a NEW story.

Not re-filming scenes from hoDS for the fourth time in a row.

G.

Whoa... that is one weird-ass Tarot card Natalie's just turned over.

If anyone cares, there never was any card in any Tarot deck (known to Tarot historians, at least) called "the Wicked Woman."  I have theorized that that may have been Natalie's personal name for one of the known cards, possibly one of the Queens.

AND no Tarot deck that has survived from the period of the late 18th century bears artwork remotely resembling what Natalie's got in her very own Wicked Deck of Cards. Again, as a presumably wealthy French aristocrat (or successful bordello manageress...lol) she may have chosen to commission an artist to create a deck just for her, with some cards bearing imagery she herself had devised.  I think I like this explanation the best of all.

G.