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Johnny Depp’s Barnabas Collins May No Longer Be a White Walker
Johnny Depp’s Barnabas Collins May No Longer Be a White Walker
By Rob Bricken
September 23, 2011
Movies, TV
?Entertainment Weekly released this official cast pic for Tim Burton’s Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows: A Movie Directed by Tim Burton. If you recall, there was a bit of panic when a set pic showed Depp, starring as vampire Barnabas Collins, looking like the love child of a mime and Twilight‘s Edward Cullen. Now, he only looks like a Munster. Maybe an undead Alfred E. Neuman, if you will. I’d say that’s an improvement, although it’s only changed my outlook of the movie from “god no” to “enh.”
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.