Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

[Catman]

After Dark Shadows, I don't wanna see another Burton-Depp collaboration for atleast 10 years.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

After Dark Shadows, I don't wanna see another Burton-Depp collaboration for atleast 10 years.

I knew that was coming...

I'd rather have this than something with Riddley Scott and Russell Crowe...

 

[Catman]

I love the Burton-Depp collaborations, but it's getting a little out of control. Dark Shadows would make the fifth collaboration in a roll! Give us a break. Cast someone else. Especially since there's a lot of actors that would be fun to see in a Burton movie.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I love the Burton-Depp collaborations, but it's getting a little out of control. Dark Shadows would make the fifth collaboration in a roll! Give us a break. Cast someone else. Especially since there's a lot of actors that would be fun to see in a Burton movie.

Yeah but this time... I think this is a case of Depp recruiting Burton and not the other way around.

 

[DarkKnight88]

So what on how many times they've worked together? As long as the characters are fresh and different (which they've ALL been so far). Edward Scissorhands is nothing like Ed Wood who is nothing like Ichabod Crane who is nothing like Willy Wonka who is nothing like Sweeney Todd.

I never see complaints with Martin Scorsese and all the times (8!) he's worked with Robert De Niro (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, New York New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino) and now Leonardo DiCaprio (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island and Theodore Roosevelt after that).

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

So what on how many times they've worked together? As long as the characters are fresh and different (which they've ALL been so far). Edward Scissorhands is nothing like Ed Wood who is nothing like Ichabod Crane who is nothing like Willy Wonka who is nothing like Sweeney Todd.

I never see complaints with Martin Scorsese and all the times (8!) he's worked with Robert De Niro (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, New York New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino) and now Leonardo DiCaprio (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island and Theodore Roosevelt after that).

Thank you!!

 

[Octoberist]

or Toshiro Mifune with Akira Kurosawa

 

[Catman]

I never see complaints with Martin Scorsese and all the times (8!) he's worked with Robert De Niro

It's not about how many times. It's about how many times in a roll. Scorsese and De Niro didn't do 8 movies in a roll. Plus, they haven't worked together in 14 years!

The Burton-Depp Collaboration is awesome, but going for 5-straight is pushing it.

 

[DarkKnight88]

It's not about how many times. It's about how many times in a roll. Scorsese and De Niro didn't do 8 movies in a roll. Plus, they haven't worked together in 14 years!

The Burton-Depp Collaboration is awesome, but going for 5-straight is pushing it.

But they also did 5 movies in a row; Mean Streets (1972) followed by Taxi Driver (1976) followed by New York, New York (1977) followed by Raging Bull (1980) followed by The King of Comedy (1983). And now with DiCaprio it's going to be 5 movies in a row; Gangs of New York (2000) followed by The Aviator (2004) followed by The Departed (2006) followed by Shutter Island (2009) followed by the upcoming Roosevelt movie in 2011.

 

[Catman]

But they also did 5 movies in a row; Mean Streets (1972) followed by Taxi Driver (1976) followed by New York, New York (1977) followed by Raging Bull (1980) followed by The King of Comedy (1983).

And that ended badly. Scorsese says that by King of Comedy they were sick of each other and is the reason why they never worked again till Goodfellas which was like 6 years later!

 

[Sawyer]

After Dark Shadows, I don't wanna see another Burton-Depp collaboration for atleast 10 years.

I wouldnt so much as put a time limit, but I would definitely like to see a few Depp-less Burton movies. And no Bonham Carter either.

 

[Catman]

And no Bonham Carter either.

Bonham Carter isn't as annoying cause she doesn't always play big parts. In Big Fish and Wonka she had like 5-minutes of screen time.

 

[ross2287]

And no Bonham Carter either.

Probably never gonna happen since she's married to/living with Burton.

 

[hpwiz89]

Well I'm still loving the Burton-Depp collaborations.

 

[Sawyer]

Well I'm still loving the Burton-Depp collaborations.

So do I, but it'd be nice to get a new lead actor every now and then.

 

[ross2287]

Yeah, like poor Michael Keaton or even Paul Ruebens.

 

[Marx]

BURTON AND DEPP TO 'VAMP IT UP' IN DARK SHADOWS
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-depp-burton-dark-shadows.html

Three of the most talked-about things at Comic-Con last week were vampires ("New Moon" and "True Blood"), another movie pairing director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp ("Alice In Wonderland"), and updates of cult '60s TV shows ("Doctor Who" and "The Prisoner"). So how excited fans would get if all of those elements could be combined into one movie?

Apparently, we'll find out when Burton and Depp team up for the big-screen adaptation of "Dark Shadows," the Gothic soap opera about vampires, ghosts, and monsters that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971.

Burton confirmed this last Thursday when he presented footage from "Alice in Wonderland" to a capacity crowd at Comic-Con's cavernous Hall H. He said "Dark Shadows" would be his next project, "if I ever finish this one here."

Before Lestat, Angel, and Edward Cullen, there was Barnabas Collins, a 175-year-old vampire who stalked the town of Collinsport, Maine pining for his lost love. Originally, the character of Barnabas, played by Jonathan Frid, was only intended for a 13-week story arc on "Dark Shadows," but he caused such a sensation with viewers he became the lead character for the next four years. The show spawned two movies in the early '70s, a revived series in 1991, and a pilot that was not picked up for series in 2004.

Depp would play Barnabas, a role he told Collider.com has been "a lifelong dream for me." Depp has said he loved the show as a child: "I was obsessed with Barnabas Collins. I have photographs of me holding Barnabas Collins posters when I was five or six." Depp has been pursuing the movie adaptation for years, buying the remake rights through his production company, Infinitum-Nihil.

Burton has also spoken about his fascination with the original show. He told the Los Angeles Times, "It had the weirdest vibe to it. I'm sort of intrigued about that vibe." He also spoke about the recent influx of vampire movies: "It's like any great fable or fairytale, it's got a power to it... There's something symbolic about it that touches people in different ways."

While both Depp and Burton seem excited to start work on what will be their eighth collaboration, production might have to wait until after Depp finishes work on the fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. Disney's Head of Production Oren Aviv said in an interview with ComingSoon.net that filming will start in April or May of next year, with a release planned for 2011. Aviv says the intention for the next movie is to "scale it down, because we can't get bigger... I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters."

 

[Poeman]

Come on Johnny..what the hell happened to filming Shantaram

 

[ross2287]

Yeah, and when are we going to get some damn news on The Rum Diary?!

 

[Sentinel X]

I never thought I would say this but...I'm kind of getting bored with Tim Burton

Having Depp or his wife in just about every new movie he does doesn't help either

 

[Mogwai]

can't wait for this. tim burton will blow all the other vampire movies out of the water.

 

[Poeman]

can't wait for this. tim burton will blow all the other vampire movies out of the water.

To me it will be like same old crap...and will have the same feel as sweeny todd. Nothing new to see here...

 

[Marx]

To me it will be like same old crap...and will have the same feel as sweeny todd. Nothing new to see here...

I think Dark Shadows will be more like a love child of Sweeney Todd and Sleepy Hollow.

 

[ross2287]

I think Dark Shadows will be more like a love child of Sweeney Todd and Sleepy Hollow.

Well, when you put it like that I can't help but be interested.

 

[Octoberist]

Burton should bring in Cillian Murphy..or some one new. Let Depp work on some original stuff on his own.