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Current Talk '22 I / Re: (**Potential Casting News: Post #1746**) It's official: Dark Shadows returns as a film with John
« on: February 06, 2011, 05:18:33 AM »
Are people really expecting the characters in Depp Shadows to bear any orderly or systematic relationship to the classic DS series? I mean, Maggie Evans was changed pretty radically from the person we knew from the Sixties in the 1990 redaction of the story. So if they decide to make Vicki a waitress who--for example--is hired at Collinwood to be a companion to a disturbed and reclusive Mrs. Stoddard when everybody's favorite "Cousin from England" (or will it be set in England and he'll be a "Cousin from America" this time around?), that should come as no surprise. This is NOT going to be a remake of the 1966 series; it's going to be its own thing altogether. Or at least, that is what it should be if it wants to have its own identity as a 21st century pop culture phenom.
I'm still disappointed that Angelique wasn't cast with a black actress. To my mind, that would make a fascinating new departure and a decisive sign that we're dealing with something new here.
G.
I'm still disappointed that Angelique wasn't cast with a black actress. To my mind, that would make a fascinating new departure and a decisive sign that we're dealing with something new here.
G.