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Friday
20Mar2009

Depp's 'Dark Shadows' Update is "Very Active"

DateFriday, March 20, 2009 at 3:45PM
There is apparently more activity on Dark Shadows than we would have initially believed. To rewind for a second: Johnny Depp picked up the rights to the iconoclastic ABC vampire soap opera in hopes of producing it through his Infinitum-Nihil brand. After that, there was plenty of speculation about Depp starring as lead vampire Barnabas Collins as well as who might direct it.

Infinitum's Sam Sarkar confirmed to MTV the news that Depp is planning to star in the film, but would not commit to Tim Burton directing the project. "I can neither confirm nor deny that,” he said. “But I know it’s out there in the ether.”

“All I can say is that one is very active,” added Sarkar. “The studio will be making some announcements regarding it pretty soon. Very soon, probably.”

I don't know whose very soon he's clocking there. Depp fans and Dark Shadows fans may have a different timeline than a studio with a bunch of projects in developments. But it's not discouraging news. Neither is Sarkar's gentle admonition to fans about taking the show from TV 40 years ago to the big screen today.

“It was a soap opera—it was a daily show. That’s something people forget. It’s one thing to adapt a weekly television series into a movie—it’s another thing to take a soap opera that’s been serialized daily and try to boil it down to two hours.”

It sounds like Depp is in no hurry to make this movie just to make a bad version. The next step is the director, and Burton is an obvious choice, given their history together. But another reason to make sure this is done correctly is because it has obvious franchise potential. I mean, listen to the man: It was on TV every day.

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