Movie Talk: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton to Vamp It Up in 'Dark Shadows'

by Matt McDaniel—July 29, 2009

Alice in Wonderland 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.”

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