DARK SHADOWS moves out of the shadows and further into development

Depp and Burton.  Ham and Cheese.  Some things just go together.  A few years back, Tim Burton announced that Johnny Depp would be joining him in his adaptation of the TV series DARK SHADOWS.  While months laid quiet, now some news has sprung about.

According to Variety, Warner Bros. has signed on Seth Grahame-Smith to write the script for the adaptation.  Name sound familiar?

Seth Grahame-Smith wrote the history-horror hybrid book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter details Lincoln’s secret battle with the undead, hit shelves in March and portrays the 16th president as a highly trained vampire assassin. Scribe also wrote the book “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”, which is also being adapted to film.

Depp obtained feature rights to “Dark Shadows” from the estate of Dan Curtis, the producer-director who created the vampire soap opera that aired weekdays on ABC from 1966 to 1971 with 1,225 episodes.

Studio hasn’t set a release date for the bigscreen project, but it was included in a deal, announced in late April, between Imax and WB to release up to 20 WB films in Imax format through 2013.