Dark Shadows comes to the big screen

June 02nd, 2008 | Category: Science Fiction

We’ve kind of been conditioned to have lowered expectations when a TV show makes the jump to the big screen. It’s generally an iffy proposition at best. For every Mission Impossible, The Fugitive, or The Untouchables there is a Bewitched, Wild Wild West, or Starsky & Hutch. With that in intellect, I was a little hesitant when I got the mail from a friend announcing that Dark Shadows was headed for the silver screen. That one could go wrong in so many ways. But next I clicked the link he sent along…

According to our friends by at Cinematical, the rights

to the show now belong to Johnny Depp’s Infinitum-Nihil production company. And now comes news that Tim Burton has signed on to direct the film adaptation. It’s a short, and fairly logical, jump to finding Depp playing Barnabas Collins. It plus doesn’t hurt the argument that when asked about the opportunity of doing that film during the Sweeney Todd press junket, Depp said, “If that comes to fruition, that’s a dream come true, man. Barnabas Collins - when I was a kid I wanted to be Barnabas.” Depp, Burton, and Dark Shadows have all the makings of a great film

Original post by Brett Love