I love today's photo of Natalie and Vicki.  Natalie's scenes come close to topping Julia's.  And her wardrobe!  I don't know what the design department was thinking, but I keep wondering if someone was winking at us and hinting that Natalie was a "Countess" because she had been running a top-class bordello in Paris and one of the aristocratic customers decided to marry her and make her respectable.  She certainly dresses like a very high-end Madam but more from Balzac's time than the 1780s/90s.  Just my thoughts... Barbara Steele complained in that video interview a couple of years ago that she didn't like doing DS because DC did not allow her to play Julia with nearly the degree of eccentricity she felt the character needed... she clearly WAY made up for lost time with Natalie!

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Even if the spoilers are real spoilers, very little of what has been written may make it to the final cut of the film.  There could be major changes from the shooting script that was passed around to various people early in the year, and what they're now shooting.  Or Burton could decide to make major changes on the spot and completely re-shoot certain sequences.  All bets are off.

Just speaking personally,
[spoiler] if the thing about Ange and Julia hating one another for their own special reasons is true, I'd LOVE to see a re-creation of the infamous Cassandra slap sequence.  Maybe this time, the impudent Witch's Wiglet will go flying and land somewhere spectacularly impertinent... on top of Roger's head, perhaps?[/spoiler]

I have to confess I don't take anything connected with the new movie very seriously.  The plans for the restoration and release of the two original feature films on DVD--now, THAT I take seriously.  I'm still waiting to hear more about the studio properly greenlighting that project.

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These  are very cool!  Sounds juicy!

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Just in case I am not the only one out there who has never heard of Megan Fox (since she isn't identified in the article), here's her Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Fox

Maybe she shows up as one of Barn's victims?  If I'm right that Depp/Burton are big fans of Leviathans and PT 1970, she may have a Marsha Mason moment and show up as the latest version of Audrey, the Leviathan Vampire Girl?

cheers, G.

Art Wallace was writing those episodes in real time.  So for many of the early episodes, each half hour corresponds, sometimes exactly. to another half hour in the lives of the characters. 

I remember the first time I noticed what Michael wrote above about how many episodes they spend on Vicki's first full day at Collinwood.  It's all pretty jaw-dropping.

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Interesting interview.  He doesn't seem aware of the degree to which the studios have pulled back from their participation in the event, however.

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Thanks, Brandon Collins.  I am sure you are right and less and less will be available with the discs, and those of us who have issues with streaming will just be stuck.  It is the way of the world...

Just curious, did they mention whether with Star Trek, in the case of the original series, will it be the unedited episodes, or the ones where they replaced the lovely old paintings, models and maquettes with tacky new CGI effects?  (My apologies to those who think of the shift to CGI on vintage classic TV shows is an "upgrade."  The thought of it makes me want to vomit.)

In the best of all worlds, they would offer both--the original episodes and the "improved" ones--so fans could have a choice.

I hear that some of the 1970s Dr Who stories are getting "improved" with CGI as well.  If the Depp Shadows franchise really takes off, I wonder whether there will be a move to attempt this with at least some relays of the original Shadows shows.
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