Hollywood’s Newest Vampire: Johnny Depp

Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Robert Pattinson, Kellan Lutz–hell why not Johnny Depp? What’s not to like?! He’s attractive, not into any wild tabloid antics and racially ambiguous allowing him to play a vast array of roles. Johnny Depp will be teaming up with long-time friend and mentor (you guessed it) Tim Burton.

Burton and Depp have collaborated on films dated as far back as 1990 in Edward Scissorhands, 1999′s Sleep Hollow, 2005′s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005′s Corpse Bride voice-over, 2007′s  Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and their most recent collab on Alice in Wonderland. Every single one has produced a magnanimous amount of honors and recognition, not to mention throngs of fans with a somewhat cult following!

Depp talks candidly about his soon-to-be film adaptation of a 1960′s vampire soap opera entitled Dark Shadows :

“Tim and I have tossed the idea for Dark Shadows over the years. It was a TV program in the States in the late 60s and early 70s that I remember watching as a kid. I was obsessed with this character, Barnabas Collins, who was a vampire. I came to find out many years later that when he was a kid, Tim ran home like I did to watch that Gothic soap opera. It was a very strange thing back then. We looked at ways to go, story-wise. We’ve started to come up with something interesting.”

Cannot WAIT for the end result in this project! Watch out Edward Cullen, Johnny Depp is on the move!

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