{"id":723,"date":"2008-06-18T08:06:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2008-06-17T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:22:38","slug":"depp-to-star-in-dark-shadows-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Depp to Star in <I>Dark Shadows<\/I> Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Brothers has obtained the rights to produce a feature film based on the 60&#8217;s soap opera <I>Dark Shadows<\/I>.  Johnny Depp will portray vampire Barnabas Collins.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Tim Burton is on board to direct, and the screenplay is being written by John August, who did the scripts for <I>Corpse Bride<\/I>, <I>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/I>, and <I>Big Fish<\/I>.  So it sounds like they&#8217;ve got &#8220;surreal&#8221; all sewn up.<\/p>\n<p>The <I>Dark Shadows<\/I> TV show makes <I>The X-Files<\/I> look positively straightforward by comparison.  During its five-year run it managed to wedge in vampires, ghosts, werewolves, zombies, witches, and Frankenstein-type monsters, not to mention time travel and parallel universes.  It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how they manage to pare all that down into a two-hour movie.<\/p>\n<p>Here are links to a couple of articles about the upcoming film:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117969246.html?categoryid=13&#038;cs=1\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/article\/index.jsp?uuid=53d265c4-2158-45f0-a148-1f22e01e13bd\">E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Brothers has obtained the rights to produce a feature film based on the 60&#8217;s soap opera Dark Shadows. Johnny Depp will portray vampire Barnabas Collins. It looks like Tim Burton is on board to direct, and the screenplay is being written by John August, who did the scripts for Corpse Bride, Charlie and the [&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-723","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\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}