Johnny Depp as a vampire!

A minor joy in my life for the past year and a half has been getting to tell someone the news. Turns out, Depp (like yours truly) was a huge fan of the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" and his production company bought the rights to it. Now Tim Burton is slated to direct, with Seth Grahame-Smith ("Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer") as screenwriter, Colleen Atwood ("Alice in Wonderland" "Silence of the Lambs" etc.) designing costumes and Bruno Delbonnel ("Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" "Across The Universe") as director of photography. The schedule says filming begins in April, with a release in 2012 -- by which time we'll have had one more "Twilight" movie, another season of "True Blood" and be watching a third season of "The Vampire Diaries."
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