Who’s really surprised by this latest casting for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows? The director has roped in two frequent collaborators for the project in the form of Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter. According to a report from Heat Vision, both actresses are in talks to fill two primary female roles. Find out what they are…
Just yesterday we learned that Jackie Earle Haley and Bella Heathcoate were in talks to join Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows adaptation, and today another actor can be added to the list. According to Deadline, French star Eva Green has been cast in the film as the female lead opposite Johnny Depp.
Jackie Earle Haley is being creepy again. The Oscar nominated actor and former Freddy Krueger will remain on the dark side for the foreseeable future. According to Deadline, Haley is up for a role in Tim Burton’s big screen adaptation of the classic daytime soap Dark Shadows. There’s also word that actress Bella Heathcoate is up for a pivotal part in the revamp. Find out who’s playing who below…
If any of you are surprised by this latest production news you obviously haven’t been following Johnny Depp’s career over the last 25 years. That man stars in everything and is constantly being courted for projects therefore, we’re not shocked that his big screen adaptation with Tim Burton entitled Dark Shadows has been pushed back.
Earlier this year while out promoting Alice in Wonderland Johnny Depp spoke about his next Tim Burton film Dark Shadows and how he hoped it would begin shooting this year. Well, we’ve got some good news and some bad news about his aspirations. The bad news is it won’t start production in 2010, but the good news is that it will in 2011, EARLY 2011. Not only that but the film has also landed a screenwriter who’s going to hammer out a dramatic and horror-filled script.
Yesterday while at the Alice in Wonderland press conference, Johnny Depp opened up and gave a few updates on two of his developing films. One of them was The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and the other was the big screen adaptation of Dark Shadows with director Tim Burton. With so many projects on his plate, which will he do first?
We finally have a solid confirmation regarding Tim Burton’s adaptation of the TV soap, Dark Shadows. Over at SciFi Wire they spoke to producer Graham King who pretty much confirmed the film’s production start date and Johnny Depp‘s casting. He also revealed what role the actor will play and gave a much needed script update.
All the press were quite eager to speak to Director Tim Burton at Comic-Con, especially after just seeing (three times in a row) the amazing and trippy sneak peak of Alice in Wonderland. I will have the entire interview soon, but I thought you might be interested in this little tidbit about what he’ll be up to when he’s done with Alice. It might be going a little far to say that he confirmed Dark Shadows will actually be happening, it was more like he agreed to wanting to do it and that others are one board, but he has to finish Alice before he can think of anything else.
Check out what he said below…
Collider talked to producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Heyman about Tim Burton’s upcoming project. He even managed to get Zanuck on camera (video below) revealing some pretty awesome information about Burton’s next project. According to Zanuck, Burton has finally decided to tackle Dark Shadows. They are set to start shooting in London next summer after Alice in Wonderland is done. And Burton won’t be moving on to his next project alone. He’ll be taking good friend Johnny Depp with him (how many films can that guy do at once? Yesterday he just got news about him taking on Dante).
