I'd say it's pretty much a given, since this is a Johnny Depp/Tim Burton team project, that a number of delays in moving forward with the scheduling are inevitable.  Thankfully, even if it takes them ten years to get this baby into actual production, Depp will still look believable as Barnabas, given how youthful his appearance still remains.

The stated release date for the DS film on IMDB is still 2011.  Another big-profile project slated for release in that year is The Mighty Thor.  If you visit the IMDB page for that site, you'll find a full cast list and much more of a sense of a project ready to go into production.  The only details available for DS continue to be pitifully scant.  So, I personally don't expect it to go into production in the foreseeable future.

Of course, I'm not a media insider like some of y'all--just an old Yankee curmudgeon.  *wink*

G.

@MB:  I'm so sorry to learn you've never seen Grayson's MFU episode.  That, to my mind, is one of the sharpest performances from her ever captured on film--and more redolent of GH's NY stage persona, too.

@Julia99:  Oh yeah!  I wish we could find publicity photos from that play, was it called the Love Nest in 1963, in which she played a lady named Crystal (Seekfest?) who was described as sexually provocative in silk pajamas or some such... I am sure she was sultry and purring in that one!

Yes, Grayson Hall IS my religion...

G.

Best of luck to you!

G.

Happy Birthday indeed to a delicious HORROR of a Hostess!

I really need to catch up with your recent work via DVD...

cheers,

G.

querido Misterioso, these are FABULOUS. Thanks so much!

I just love that jutting lip from Grayson... and the hint of a sneer from Frid...

G.

I do love Grayson's delivery of the line "Mrs Johnson is a repressed hysteric."  It really looks as if she's biting back a big blurt of laughter.

David has dialogue where he explains to Amy who Matthew Morgan was, but all he says is that "he was somebody who used to work for us."  Imagine if he had said, "Yeah, he was my best buddy for awhile, but then he kidnapped Miss Winters, kept her bound and gagged in a secret room behind the bookcase in the Old House, and was about to make mincemeat of her brains with an axe when Josette's ghost gave him a heart attack."

I tried imagining the conversation in which Barnabas and Julia have to explain to the kids:  "David, we know we said Aunt Elizabeth was dead, but we were wrong.  We came *this close* to burying her alive, but luckily we didn't, and she woke up and she's upstairs now having a nice tall brandy."

Maybe the difficulties trying to come up with plausible references to some of the bygone storylines that wound up in rather lurid scenarios partly accounts for the weird "amnesia" around such characters as Joe, Vicki, Jason, et al.

G.

Oh, yay!  "Mrs Johnson is a repressed hysteric."  Love it!

Thanks, MB, for pointing me here.

G.

My condolences, Anne.  Keep at it.

Best,

G.