Dark Shadows

Would you like to get a

haircut? He did Dark Shadows? The movie,

not the show.

Yeah.

He didn't

direct Dark Shadows, did he?

Yes.

Did he just produce Dark Shadows? No, no, he's the

director.

Okay, that might be one bad film he's done.

And he loved.

uh anything really but most of all we love dark shadows dark

shadows dark

shadows so today

I'm like, hey, Robert Carlyle.

That's his name.

Yeah, the House of Dark Shadows.

So let's get some stats up.

Um, well, you know who is a writer, uh, executive producer is John August, who is working on the Netflix series.

He had written previously for Tim Burton films, including Corpse Bride and Dark Shadows, so kind of has that pedigree.

That leads me to believe that this might be maybe a little more Honor Among Thieves in tone than like, uh, you know, dark horror necessarily, but like with a spooky vibe, but still for kids.

You know what I mean? But he also, for folks who are interested in knowing this, uh, during COVID, I think in 2020, John August put up a series of videos on his YouTube channel of Craig Mazin from The Last of Us and Chernobyl fame doing a tutorial on Roll20 about running Curse of Strahd, which is kind of incredible pedigree, uh, for the fact that John August now has the responsibility of, uh, producing and writing this TV show.

course.

Dark Shadows, 2012.

Oh, and that's our Johnny Depp also.

Cruella.

I just can't.

It looks like this is an episode of Dark Shadows, and she's covering this up because of vampire bitter.

That's exactly what it looks like.

A little bit.

Kind references only.

I would respect that.

Dark Shadows.

Yes.

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and a great, great little scene movie called The Nines with Ryan Reynolds and Melissa McCarthy, which he also directed.

He's worked with Burton a lot, writing Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

But I love the shifting perspectives and the interlocking stories.

John August actually hosts a podcast on screenwriting, Script Notes, that he's done for about 15 years now.

Yeah.

2012's Dark Shadows, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton.

Oh, yes.

Awful.