Johnny Depp in Dark Shadows and Other Casting News
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And here I thought I was the only one left who was obsessed with
Dark Shadows. But no, apparently
Johnny Depp is, too. According to
Variety, the erstwhile Cap'n Jack grew up wishing he was the '60s soap's anti-hero, vampire Barnabas Collins - and still does. So now that he's a big movie star and not a starry-eyed kid, he's making it happen, developing a big-screen version of the daytime drama. Oh, please, please, please, can we get Angelina Jolie to play Angelique the Witch?! Those lips, those eyes! She's perfect!
Elsewhere...
Susan Sarandon has been cast as the slain heroine's grandmother in
The Lovely Bones, based on Alice Sebold's best-seller.
Stanley Tucci is considering playing her killer. Dude, Susan Sarandon's in the movie.... What's to think about?
Meanwhile,
Vince Vaughn and
Reese Witherspoon are teaming up to coproduce and star in New Line's
Four Christmases, about a couple who visit their four divorced parents all on the same holiday.
In small-screen casting news,
Gilmore Girls paterfamilias
Edward Herrmann has signed on to play a doc on several eppies of
Grey's Anatomy. And
Melrose Place alum
Rob Estes has been added to the cast of ABC's fall drama,
Women's Murder Club. Presumably
not as one of the women.
