Though we knew it was coming soon, despite rumors that Tim Burton mind end up working on something else in the meantime, Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros' new take on Dark Shadows, with Johnny Depp starring as the vampire Barnabas Collins, will start shooting next April. Burton will be directing from a screenplay re-written by Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter author Seth Grahame-Smith, as John August (Big Fish, Corpse Bride, The Nines) wrote the first draft. It was originally supposed to start production this year, but was pushed to January, now all the way back to April. But at least it's pretty much ready to go now!
性格男星约翰-尼德普即将接演华纳电影公司的新片《黑影 Dark Shadows》，在片中他将饰演吸血鬼巴尔纳巴斯-柯林斯，影片将由尼德普的老搭档——导演蒂姆-波顿执导，计划将于明年四月开机。《大雨》的编剧约翰-奥加斯特已经完成了剧本的初稿，而第二版的改变工作已经交给了《亚伯拉罕-林肯：吸血鬼亨特》的作者赛斯-格雷厄姆-史密斯。电影原本在今年年内就会开机，之后被延期至明年一月，最后开机之日敲定在了四月份。
Burton has been linked to multiple projects recently, like Monsterpocalypse at DreamWorks Animation, a Mai The Psychic Girl adaptation, and his upcoming animated Frankenweenie and Addams Family movies, but alas he's set to head into the Dark Shadows next (had to make that pun). Dark Shadows is based on a 1960s gothic daytime serial that feature vampires, ghosts, ghouls, zombies, werewolves, parallel universes and time-paradoxes, that Burton described as "part campy melodrama, part dead serious—and decidedly odd—storytelling." I'm curious to see how both August and Grahame-Smith have reshaped the classic TV show into a modern movie that Burton is bringing to life with Depp. It will certainly be interesting to see.
蒂姆-波顿目前已经有众多计划在手，例如梦工厂的《Monsterpocalyps》，动画片《Monsterpocalyps》和《Addams Family》。《黑影》改编自上世纪六十年代的日间电视连续几，但蒂姆将之形容为“有些闹剧，有些严肃，有些怪异的这样一个引人入胜的故事”，究竟编剧奥加斯特和史密斯将会把这部经典电视剧改写成怎样的一个现代电影？而波顿和尼德普又将以怎样的方式呈现？这一切都着实让人好奇。 |