Way Off Topic: Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins!

[Ceridwen]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, danielle dassero <drdara at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I saw the remake of the series they had on in the 90's, I loved it. 
Could never quite get into the original series though. I love Johnny 
Depp too and thinks he would make a good Barnabas too.
> Danielle
> 
> 
> lwilliams15209 blessed us with this gem On 10/08/2007 14:45:
> 
> > Really? I love Dark Shadows! I hadn't known there was a film 
version
> > coming out. I agree that Johnny Depp will do a wonderful job as 
Barnabas
> > Collins. I can't wait to see it.

Lee K:
> I remember as a child treasuring those few afternoons when I wasn't 
in 
> school because it meant being able to watch DS (who knows? I may 
even 
> have feigned sickness a time or two just to catch it).

Ceridwen:
I hadn't heard this.  I'm really looking forward to the movie now.

I watched the original, complete with wiggling walls and sticking 
doors.  LOVED Barnabas.  I tried to get into the new version, but 
between working half the nights it was on, and the oddity of slick 
sets and scripts, I just couldn't.  Interesting, though, that the new 
version had Maggie having an affair with Roger.  I liked that.

On one of those reunion get-togethers, Lara Parker, who played 
Angelique, said that her first appearance as a vampire was with press-
on nails for fangs.  DS was the king of low-budget.

Ceridwen.