Tim Burton's Dark Shadows - Part 2

[cronosred]

IMO the advertisements they keep showing make the film look terrible and I guess they must have got a good amount of money from Mcdonalds because so far it seems to appear in all of their commercials.

 

[DACrowe]

How long had Dark Shadow's gone on for? What was it adapted from? What other forms of media was it in during it's run? After it's run?

If you're going to make a comparison, use one that works and don't get uptight when the one you used is not a good one.

Us in a nutshell:

Guy: X sucks. Who cares if people treat it like a joke?

Other Guy: I like X! It'd be like if people treated Y, something we all like now, as crap because that's how it was also viewed for decades.

Guy: No, because X sucks. Y's awesome.

And we're going in a circle.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It isn't about treating it like a joke. It is about not adapting it in a way you even admit wouldn't work in this day and age.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Okay, I've been trying to read all this, but I'm just gonna ask, what are you all debating about?

 

[Sawyer]

Just a whole lot of herp and derp and waiting for the movie to get here.

 

[AnneFan]

waiting for the movie to get here.

Indeed. I wish the movie would hurry on up and get released. There's not too long to go, I guess.

Whatever tone they go for I get the impression I'll like it regardless. I really am expecting to see one of Burton's better films.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Jonathan Frid has died at age 87...

Dark Shadows star Jonathan Frid has died in Canada.

The 87-year-old actor reportedly died of natural causes at Juravinski Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario.

Frid was best known for playing vampire Barnabas Collins on gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows.

The series originally aired on ABC in the US between June 1966 and April 2, 1971.

Frid also starred in 1973 television movie The Devil's Daughter and 1974 film horror Seizure.

He filmed a cameo appearance - his final acting credit - in Tim Burton's forthcoming film remake of Dark Shadows, which stars Johnny Depp as Barnabas.

Depp previously admitted to being "obsessed" as a child with Frid's performance as the 200-year-old vampire.

"I loved the show when I was a kid [and] I was obsessed with Barnabas Collins," the Hollywood star said in 2009. "I have photographs of me holding Barnabas Collins posters when I was 5 or 6."

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/ne...collins-actor-jonathan-frid-dies-aged-87.html

 

[Gianakin_]

RIP. I have never seen the show, didn't even know it existed before it was announced Burton's next project. But it's his first movie I'm interested enough to perhaps see in the cinema since Big Fish.

 

[Crockett]

Oh man this is sad, and he passed away on the 14th, man I didn't know that. Frid's performance truly made Barnabas a special character. RIP.

Kathryn Leigh Scott had wrote a moving article about the times working with and knowing Frid.

http://www.kathrynleighscott.com/?page_id=298

 

[redfirebird2008]

Saddest part of it is he said the movie was going to be his first trip to a theater in 10 years. Life is so unfair sometimes. Sucks big time that he didn't make it to the movie's release.

 

[mongoose-mania]

I'm honestly heartbroken by the news. I've never met Jonathan Frid, but I did get to see him act at last year's festival, and he did seem really excited to see the new film. This is really sad. He'll always be my favorite vampire.

 

[C. Lee]

Jonathan Frid has died at age 87...



http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/ne...collins-actor-jonathan-frid-dies-aged-87.html

Damn....sad news.....His Barnabas Collins work was great.

 

[DACrowe]

Jonathan Frid has died at age 87...



http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/ne...collins-actor-jonathan-frid-dies-aged-87.html

That's really sad. He was such a good actor (I think I remember he comes from theater primarily) who turned a silly show into a cult classic by just being...great. The world's first sympathetic vampire.

I wish he'd been able to see the premiere. Rest in peace.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Yeah.

It might be too late for Burton and Depp to dedicate the film to him... but we'll see.

 

[Sawyer]

I doubt it's too late. Even if this was mere days before opening, I think they'd probably scramble to get it done.

RIP Frid.

 

[samsnee]

And just like that, Frid has given the new Dark Shadows movie more exposure than any of the marketing so far.

 

[mclay18]

Say what you want about the film's marketing, Bruno Delbonnel's camerawork on this movie is stunning. Why aren't more U.S. productions hiring this guy? He and Wally Pfister make good cases about keeping 35mm as a viable source to shoot movies with.

 

[DACrowe]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/jonathan-frid-dead-dark-s_n_1439085.html

A nice little bio on Frid is here.

 

[Still Wynning]

My mom and I caught an ad during "American Idol". She said that it looked dumb.

Now, before you harp on my mom for being wrong and not knowing anything about movies, hear me out. I don't always agree with my mom on everything, but she's a pretty good gauge for the average audience. If you can't get someone like her interested with the kind of marketing that this film has so far, chances are that the majority of people probably won't be either.

For example, we went to Iron Man when that first came out; she loved and enjoyed that film just as much as I did. She's barely a moviegoer, much less a comic book fan.

We saw Up together; she adored that.

Hell, my mom, who watched Star Trek as a kid, watched the 2009 Star Trek with my dad and I; she hadn't even seen an episode since her childhood, and she loved it.

I'm not knocking the movie itself or anything (I'm actually a little intrigued myself, particularly the score). I'm just pointing out how the current marketing for this film probably isn't going to appeal much to the general public.

 

[AnneFan]

It might be too late for Burton and Depp to dedicate the film to him... but we'll see.

Hopefully they can.

 

[Punisher Rising]

R.I.P. Jonathan Frid

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Johnny Depp: Jonathan Frid was ‘elegant, magical’

Johnny Depp said the world has lost “a true original” with the passing of Jonathan Frid, the darkly debonair Canadian actor who played vampire Barnabas Collins in the melodramatic and macabre soap opera “Dark Shadows.”


Depp grew up as an ardent fan of “Dark Shadows” and that passion led to the film version remake, which reaches theaters May 11 with Depp as a key producer and also starring in the role made famous by Frid. Director Tim Burton also brought Frid and other original series cast members in for cameos in the movie, giving Depp a chance to share the screen with an idol of his youth.


So as news spread Thursday that Frid had died late last week — on Friday the 13th, no less – Depp was balancing the bittersweet subplots of a life that could last 87 long years but end one month shy of a final shining career moment.


In a conversation that stretched over a series of emails, Depp said it was clear last year on the London set of the “Dark Shadows” film that Frid had reached a fragile time in his health. “Very sad,” Depp said of the news of Frid’s passing in a hospital in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.


“Jonathan Frid was the reason I used to run home from school to watch ‘Dark Shadows,’” Depp said in an email during a break on the set of Gore Verbinski’s “Lone Ranger” in Arizona. ”His elegance and grace was an inspiration then and will continue to remain one forever more. When I had the honor to finally meet him … [he] generously passed the torch of Barnabas.”


Last year, on the set of “Shadows,” Depp talked about his youth in Miramar, Fla., and the influence of Frid on ”this young kid” who had an outsider spirit and adored the way “Dark Shadows” transported him to “some other dimension I had never seen before.”


The show’s setting was Maine — pretty different from the sun-beaten suburb of South Florida – but Depp felt such an affinity for the forlorn Barnabas that he borrowed some of his gestures and phrases when he was young. That connection is intriguing considering the amount of time that Depp would later spend inside the skulls of eccentric lost souls. Frid may have been the bright north star that led Depp into a career of spooky mansions and gothic superstardom, which would explain why Depp was giddy when he met Frid for the first time. Barnabas, Depp pointed out, did not disappoint that day. ”As elegant and magical,” Depp remembered, “as I had always imagined.”

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012...ws-star-jonathan-frid-was-elegant-magical/#/4

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Brand new footage:

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Much more pictures here: http://tbcollectivenews.blogspot.co.uk/

 

[terry78]

That second picture just immediately made me laugh.

 

[Sawyer]

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