Johnny Depp Digging Up Another Cult Show-Turned-Shitty Movie For Disney

It will be a testament to Johnny Depp's drawing power if Dark Shadows is a big hit next May when you think about how a lot of people are unaware of the horror soap opera it's based on and it coming too late into the vampire craze. But with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides being the third film he's managed to get to $1 billion box-office (thanks to the foreign markets; Pirates 4 under-performed stateside), Disney knows they'd be fools to turn down anything he wants to do.

From the looks of it (via "TOLDJA"), he wants to translate another cult show into a big-budget feature. He's set to produce, and in all probability star although that remains to-be-determined, The Night Stalker, based on a 1972 telefilm starring Darren McGavin that was popular enough to spawn a short-lived weekly series about a reporter who constantly got caught up in the supernatural. I watched the Hell out of the show during the mid 90s when the Sci-Fi Channel aired it. Check out the show's great intro at the bottom.

I could be more optimistic, yes, especially about the Paul Revere/Midnight Ride project also being set up with Janet and Lee Batchler writing. But I'm just so damned bored with Depp. Maybe if he took a few years off and made us miss eccentric/"colorful weirdo" routine, then we’d develop a hunger for more.