Tim Burton's Dark Shadows - Part 2

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[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45590

Source: IESB.net
June 2, 2008


IESB.net has learned, via an interview with director Peter Segal, that the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and "Corpse Bride" team of Tim Burton, John August and Johnny Depp are reuniting for Dark Shadows.

Burton will reportedly direct the Warner Bros. feature based on the '60s supernatural TV show from a script by August. Johnny Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and GK Films are producing and Depp has had interest in playing Barnabas Collins, the vampire patriarch of the series, but that hasn't been confirmed.

Over 1,225 episodes, "Dark Shadows" was a highly atmospheric, spooky soap that featured gothic horror staples like vampires, monsters, witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies.

 

[Duke]

I caught a few episodes of the original Dark Shadows show a while back & then I saw the trailer for the upcoming movie. It clearly didn't remain 100% pure to the source material. With that being said, I might check it out later or once it's on dvd/blu ray.

 

[nightwing06]

At first i thought Burton was going to give it a serious tone,its more of a fish out of water comedy.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Official trailer:

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For the new thread.

 

[mongoose-mania]

I showed the trailer to my mother last night who's a huge fan of the original series. She didn't like what she saw, saying it didn't look anything like the show at all.
I'm a pretty big fan of the original show myself, and I think the movie looks great. Of course, I'm also a huge Burton/Depp fan, so maybe there's a little bias in there, but I do sincerely think it looks like it's going to be a decent movie. Yes, the trailer makes it look like some weird comedy, but when you overlook the 70s tunes and crazy Barnabas/Angelique escapades, there's some serious stuff going on. I've got faith that they've made the best adaptation they could, and I really can't wait to see it.

 

[Majik1387]

I'm still saying that WB edited this trailer to look more comedic than it is.

 

[CConn]

I'm still saying that WB edited this trailer to look more comedic than it is.

I agree completely. If you actually look at the footage, it's very dark and gothic.

And every humorous scene seemed to be edited heavily. You can clearly see where they cut and pasted the scenes together to make them appear faster moving, and probably more silly.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Yep... if this movie is flat-out slapstick comedy as the trailer suggests, then why were Burton and the cast claiming it would be difficult to market?

They kept saying it was a hard movie to describe and define. WB are clearly confused with the finished product and have decided to go the comedy route to sell it.

 

[Marvolo]

I have no knowledge whatsoever of the original material. I've never even seen pictures or clips of it. Having said that, I was 100% sold on the movie by that trailer. Now, I'll be fine if it has a darker tone, and won't feel cheated by the marketing. However, I would love to see the comedy that trailer implied. The rivalry and antics between Eva's and Johnny's characters is the movie I would love to see. It seems like that isn't the movie this actually is, or even what this movie is about, but its a movie I wish Burton had made.

 

[marvelrobbins]

I am convinced this trailer overemphsed the lighter moments In the film and downplayed the serious and Horror elements.

Tim Burton Films often have misleading trailers.Even this one shows some elements of seriousness.Compare the 18th century scenes.They are clearly not done comedicly.And later In trailer while comedic music Is playing Michelle Pfeiffer pulls Chloe Moretz and actor playing david Collins close to her which looks serious moments.

If Burton made straight comedy or parody here warner brothers wouldn't be having trouble promating It.People also need to take Into account what Burton himself has said.
He Isn't one when he does Interviews to lie since at times It Is hard to get him to talk to press.This will likely come off at the end as Horror/Comedy/Disfuncial family/Supernatural
Soap opera film.It won't be straight horror some might have wanted but It won't be straight comedy some are thinking.Even the one screening had It described as Horrorcomedy.

 

[marcvader]

This trailer is aimed at the masses and it succeeds in making it more palatable for the general movie goer. I'm pretty sure more people not sure about this movie are luered to it now than people acquainted with the series are turned off by it.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Still not sure what to make of this trailer. I guess I don't mind if they made it into a comedy, but as a fan of the 1980s revival series Dark Shadows with Ben Cross, I was hoping for something really dark and brutal. Cross was downright scary in that show. That being said, I've never seen the original series so I don't know how dark it was or wasn't.

But I thought the main theme was the love story between Barnabas and the woman who is the reincarnation of his lost love. The trailer made it look like it's all about Barnabas and Angelique (and it makes them look like they ultimately get together... WTF?).

Regardless of that though, I have to agree that Eva Green kicks ass in the trailer. Depp is okay, but he just seems to be doing his usual schtick. He's becoming like the goth Bruce Willis and just playing the same cooky guy in every movie.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

I am convinced this trailer overemphsed the lighter moments In the film and downplayed the serious and Horror elements.

Tim Burton Films often have misleading trailers.Even this one shows some elements of seriousness.Compare the 18th century scenes.They are clearly not done comedicly.And later In trailer while comedic music Is playing Michelle Pfeiffer pulls Chloe Moretz and actor playing david Collins close to her which looks serious moments.

If Burton made straight comedy or parody here warner brothers wouldn't be having trouble promating It.People also need to take Into account what Burton himself has said.
He Isn't one when he does Interviews to lie since at times It Is hard to get him to talk to press.This will likely come off at the end as Horror/Comedy/Disfuncial family/Supernatural
Soap opera film.It won't be straight horror some might have wanted but It won't be straight comedy some are thinking.Even the one screening had It described as Horrorcomedy.

This basically. There's hardly anyway to tell this is set in the 70s without the trailer telling you and the use of music to drive the point home.

It's the usually bizarre dressed people you always see in Burton's films.

 

[marcvader]

I'm thinking it will have its quarky comedy but still have deaths and such.

 

[Majik1387]

This basically. There's hardly anyway to tell this is set in the 70s without the trailer telling you and the use of music to drive the point home.

It's the usually bizarre dressed people you always see in Burton's films.

It's easy to tell this takes place in the 70's from Pfeiffer's line stating it clearly. That plus the setting makes it pretty clear without the music.

Only times he's had people dressed bizarre is if the setting was fantasy or the characters were bizarre. His regular everyday people dress like regular everyday people.

 

[Call Me Darkman]

It's amazing how much crap this movie is getting from bloggers.

 

[kvz5]

Really? I thought it was being well received?

 

[Project862006]

never seen tv show but i think the trailer was great

very beetle juice

 

[DACrowe]

Still not sure what to make of this trailer. I guess I don't mind if they made it into a comedy, but as a fan of the 1980s revival series Dark Shadows with Ben Cross, I was hoping for something really dark and brutal. Cross was downright scary in that show. That being said, I've never seen the original series so I don't know how dark it was or wasn't.

But I thought the main theme was the love story between Barnabas and the woman who is the reincarnation of his lost love. The trailer made it look like it's all about Barnabas and Angelique (and it makes them look like they ultimately get together... WTF?).

Regardless of that though, I have to agree that Eva Green kicks ass in the trailer. Depp is okay, but he just seems to be doing his usual schtick. He's becoming like the goth Bruce Willis and just playing the same cooky guy in every movie.

I've only seen an episode of the revival when I saw it on the Chiller channel (I haven't checked that channel in a long time....), but it was a slightly more straight faced version where they streamlined what would maybe take 5 episodes of the original into 1 episode. It also didn't have the kind of eccentric charm of Frid's performance and the old show.

Barnabas's love story with Vicky is important, but the highlight of the show that I remember is Barnabas vs. Angelique. I don't know if she was in the revival, but she was pretty much pure evil in the original show. Even if they turn it into bloody Addams Family in the movie, I doubt they will change that. At least, I hope not.

 

[dark_b]

can we all agree that from a studios point promoting this as a comedy was the best way?

 

[CConn]

I probably would've promoted as Twilight.

 

[AnneFan]

It's amazing how much crap this movie is getting from bloggers.

Let them whine. They don't get it.

 

[Call Me Darkman]

Let them whine. They don't get it.

Their complains have been the same as DACrowe, but without the skeptism.

 

[Lighthouse]

Eva Green is my kryptonite, and in this trailer.......I'm sorry, I cannot think clearly.