Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) brings Darkish shadows returned from the grave.
The cult Sixties tv sequence, a gothic cleaning soap opera starring tormented vampire Barnabas Collins and his supernaturally dysfunctional household, shall be reimagined as an animated sequence for adults, The Hollywood Reporter discovered.
The unique sequence, created by Dan Curtis, aired weekdays on ABC from 1966 to 1971 and gained a faithful viewers. It was one of many first profitable daytime sequence and has grow to be an everlasting cult basic. The sequence has spawned a number of function movie diversifications, together with Tim Burton’s 2012 function starring Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer.
WBA mentioned it was energetic Darkish shadows the reboot will proceed the saga of the Collins household. The newspaper’s official line reads: “Mixing the gothic, horror and supernatural genres, this upcoming adaptation guarantees the entire darkish twists and romantic intrigues which have outlined the transformational sequence over its greater than 1,200 episodes.”
Lisa Holdsworth, creator of the Channel 4 sequence Dreamers and a author on Sky’s Discovery of witches and the BBC Name the midwifewould be the govt producer and showrunner of the sequence. Different govt producers embody Cathy Curtis, Tracy Curtis, Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert. The sequence is presently in improvement. WBA has not given any particulars on when it expects to ship.
WBA introduced the undertaking at its studio dialogue panel in Annecy, the place WBA’s Peter Girardi (EVP, Different Programming) and Shaleen Desai (SVP, Grownup Collection) previewed the studios’ present slate of grownup animation.