Tim Burton doing Dark Shadows in 2012...

[MisterCairo]

Burton should be able to pull this off.

And I agree -- if they use anything OTHER than Cobert's music, it'll be a travesty. That music MADE "Dark Shadows" what it was. Without that music, even if they have the same characters and plots, it's not DS.

Isn't he contractually obligated to use Danny Elfman as his music guy, along with Johnny Deppe as lead? Unless of course he's doing a remake of a musical, a la Sweeney Todd.....

 

[rue]

Don't forget Batman .... no Depp in that one.

 

[Doctor Strange]

And I loved it in 1989... but it hasn't aged so well. It looks sloppy and overdone in a post-Batman Begins/The Dark Knight world.

 

[rue]

I haven't seen it since it came out, so you're probably right. At the time, I thought it was great though. I'll have to watch it again

 

[Doctor Strange]

Of course, its success spawned the brilliant Batman: The Animated Series, which remains my all-time favorite adaptation of the character! Gotta give it some credit for that.

Its success was also responsible for the spate of early-90s comics adaptations - Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, The Shadow, The Phantom, TV's The Flash and Lois and Clark - which were all fun, if not all good...

 

[ButteMT61]

I'll wait and see before getting all down on it. Sure, things like this have a high failure rate, but I am hoping it will have some redeeming value. At this point, I'd wager a 50-50 chance it's good. Either way, I'll end up there watching it, so I'm staying positive!

 

[Pompidou]

I imagine if Burton is directing it, Elfman will do the music. It'll probably be the original theme remixed into a quirky march - like every Burton-Elfman collaboration.

 

[Mickey Caesar]

Isn't he contractually obligated to use Danny Elfman as his music guy, along with Johnny Deppe as lead? Unless of course he's doing a remake of a musical, a la Sweeney Todd.....

Dont forget Helena Bonham Carter

 

[Edward]

And I loved it in 1989... but it hasn't aged so well. It looks sloppy and overdone in a post-Batman Begins/The Dark Knight world.

Saw it again recently. It is definitely more of a comic-book movie than the more recent product, though there were elements I liked a lot even still. Nicholson still stole the show... When I saw The Dark Knight I got what they were doing with the Joker, but I wish they'd let him be a little more stylised with the make-up. He was a great Joker, just not my Joker (c/f watching Daniel Craig do Bond).

Of course, its success spawned the brilliant Batman: The Animated Series, which remains my all-time favorite adaptation of the character! Gotta give it some credit for that.

Oh yes, it was perfect. I adored how "diesel punk" it was... such a shame it ended, and to be replaced by that monstrosity where they're all drawn with the proportions of an orang-utan.

Its success was also responsible for the spate of early-90s comics adaptations - Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, The Shadow, The Phantom, TV's The Flash and Lois and Clark - which were all fun, if not all good...

Never saw The Flash, it sounded fun. HATED Lois and Clark, though, especially what they did with Lois.

Dont forget Helena Bonham Carter

Haas't she only been in Planet of the Apes and Sweeney Todd (for both of which she had to audition)?

 

[rue]

Haas't she only been in Planet of the Apes and Sweeney Todd (for both of which she had to audition)?

She was also in Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice and Wonderland. Burton dumped his wife for her.

 

[Doctor Strange]

She was also in Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice In Wonderland. And she voiced the title character in The Corpse Bride.

And Edward, I vastly prefer Mark Hamill's Joker in B:TAS to both Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger! (Or Cesar Romero, while we're at it.)

ADDENDUM: You beat me to it, Rue!

 

[rue]

lol Sorry about that.... I'm a fan, if you couldn't tell

 

[Edward]

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten she was in those. D'oh. I knew they were together, didn't know he'd been married before.

 

[Edward]

She was also in Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice In Wonderland. And she voiced the title character in The Corpse Bride.

And Edward, I vastly prefer Mark Hamill's Joker in B:TAS to both Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger! (Or Cesar Romero, while we're at it.)

ADDENDUM: You beat me to it, Rue!

Caeser Romero I couldn't stand, but then I hated Adam West too....

 

[Doctor Strange]

Let's just say it was a VERY different treatment of Batman altogether! I have a certain amount of affection for the campy old Bat-series - I was 11 and 12 when it first aired - but it turned Batman into a joke for years. (At least until the outstanding back-to-the-dark-avenger-of-the-night comics by Denny O'Neil and Neil Adams starting in 1970.)

 

[rue]

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten she was in those. D'oh. I knew they were together, didn't know he'd been married before.

Tim Burton and Lisa Marie, "Planet of the Apes"

Burton and Marie were a couple from 1992-2001 and he cast her in all the films he made during that period: “Ed Wood,” “Mars Attacks!,” “Sleepy Hollow” and “Apes.” But it was during the filming of “Apes” that Burton began a relationship with another of the film’s actresses, Helena Bonham Carter. Burton and Carter were a public couple by the time of the “Apes” release, and have subsequently collaborated on six films. Marie, for whatever reason, hasn’t taken an acting role since.

Info here: http://brevard.metromix.com/movies/...ty-couples-post-breakup/2549846/photo/2554393

 

[RBH]

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[Dan'l]

I loved the original, couldn't wait for the next episode.

Burton can certainly pull off the Gothic feel.

 

[ButteMT61]

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Nice to see that he's keeping the original look - costumes, hair, etc.
I'd have hated to have it go "Emo" or "Twilight"

 

[rue]

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I think it's going to look really great, if nothing else