DARK SHADOWS Begins Next Year

It has seemed like we have announced about eight or nine times that DARK SHADOWS would be the next film on Tim Burton’s plate.  In looking back over the site, I see that it was only once, but, still, news of its proposed start date on production has been a long time coming.  Sci-Fi Wire caught up with producer Graham King who claims the film will begin shooting next year.

We’re actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny.

King also went on to talk about how he is beginning preparations for the film while Burton finishes up his work on ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

We’ve been working on the script a lot, even though he’s working on ALICE.  We’ve been given a script. John August wrote the first screenplay. We’re making some changes, but the film’s going to be in production, as I say, September or October of next year.

This won’t be the first time Burton will be working on a John August screenplay.  August has written the scripts for Burton films good (BIG FISH), bad (CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY), and somewhere in the middle (CORPSE BRIDE).  He is also behind the finished screenplay for Burton’s upcoming remake of his own film, FRANKENWEENIE.

On whether DARK SHADOWS would have something to say about the current onslaught of brooding, emo-style vampires, King had a coy response.

This is going to be Tim Burton and Johnny doing a vampire movie, right?