{"id":13891,"date":"2012-02-28T07:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2012-02-27T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:03:28","slug":"inconceivable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13891","title":{"rendered":"Inconceivable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kolchak-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kolchak\" title=\"Kolchak\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker\">Kolchak: The Night Stalker<\/a> was a proto-<i>X Files<\/i> series from the early 70s which starred Darren McGavin as a reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with supernatural causes.*<\/p>\n<p>Disney has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/02\/disney-taps-edgar-wright-to-helm-johnny-depp-in-the-night-stalker-feature-redo\/\">announced<\/a> that it plans a feature film based on the series, starring Johnny Depp (who also stars in the upcoming film based on <i>Dark Shadows<\/i>; both it and Kolchak were created by Dan Curtis).  And as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2012\/02\/tim_burton_somehow_not_directing_what_is_obviously.php\">Topless Robot<\/a> puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it a remake of a weird and\/or cult classic TV series or movie? Check.<\/li>\n<li>Is it being released by Disney, meaning it&#8217;ll be PG-13 at the most? Check.<\/li>\n<li>Is Johnny Depp going to star? Check.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet despite all the similarities to most of what Tim Burton has done over the past several years, somehow Burton will not be directing.  That seems&#8230;almost criminal.  Instead, Edgar Wright (who directed <i>Shaun of the Dead<\/i> amongst other things) has been hired both to direct and to oversee the project from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll go see it anyway; it sounds like loads of fun.  Still, such a Burton-esque project going Burtonless makes me sad.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*I recently re-watched a few of the old episodes and my primary issues were: 1) The first thing I ever saw Darren McGavin in was <i>A Christmas Story<\/i>, and it&#8217;s VERY hard to get past that and see him as a hard-bitten reporter fighting horrible supernatural creatures. 2) I kept being overcome with waves of early-70s nostalgia.  (&#8220;They&#8217;re using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_cubes#flashcube\">flash cubes<\/a>!  I remember flash cubes!&#8221;)  So you see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolchak: The Night Stalker was a proto-X Files series from the early 70s which starred Darren McGavin as a reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with supernatural causes.* Disney has just announced that it plans a feature film based on the series, starring Johnny Depp (who also stars in the upcoming film based on Dark Shadows; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13905,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions\/13905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}