Friday, November 5, 2010
Johnny Depp's "Dark Shadows" Begins Filming In April
According to this article in Collider.com, actor Johnny Depp will don the cape as vampire Barnabas Collins in a new movie based on the gothic soap-opera Dark Shadows in April.
Left, Jonathan Frid as the iconic Barnabas Collins in the original soap-opera.
The movie will be directed by Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood).
The role of the guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas Collins was created in 1967 by Jonathan Frid. The show ran on ABC-TV until April 1971.
Ben Cross played the role in the Dark Shadows revival series in 1991.
Right, Jonathan Frid at a Dark Shadows Festival in 1984 in Los Angeles. Photo by Armand Vaquer.
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