Is the Dark Shadows movie dead and, if not, is Johnny Depp still going to be in it?
— HCRD FlickChick: Dark Shadows, a joint project between Johnny Depp’s Infinitum-Nihil production company and producer Graham King’s GK Films, is still in development, but it doesn’t look as though a lot has gone on since mid-2007. That’s when they secured rights from the estate of Dan Curtis to base a movie on the 1966-1971 supernatural soap opera; Curtis developed the series, made two feature films based on it in the 1970s, and later went on to produce and direct a slew of supernatural films, mostly for TV. At this time, there’s no screenwriter attached to the project, but it does have a distributor: Warner Bros. Dark Shadows was briefly and unsuccessfully revised as a 1990s TV series, but there is a loyal fan base who could make a theatrical film successful, if and only if it got the tone and characters right. Depp is a longtime fan of the original series and would star as tormented vampire Barnabas Collins (originally played by Jonathan Frid), the show’s most popular character. Fo
