Depp to star in Night Stalker remake

[Rats Riley]

http://images.search.yahoo.com/image...6&fr=yfp-t-701

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/23...night-stalker/

Just came across this... Loved the original show as a kid! I think what was so eerie about the show back then was the lack of cellphones and how gritty TV film stock seemed. Almost as if it was news stock..... it kind of made it believable especially since I was in grade school!

Personally I'm picturing the Crane impression he portrayed in Sleepy Hollow.... I'd see it!

[Feraud]

This could be interesting.
I picture Depp as we saw him in The Ninth Gate. A bit dishevelled, smoking, lugging around a shoulder bag of research and slightly out of his element.

[bunnyb.gal]

Disney's adaptation? Doubt in that case he'll be smoking.

I loved this show, too, probably my favourite from that time period. I think because Kolchak was such a throwback to the 30's hardboiled reporter, and the music was great. Everything was a bit grainy and murky and that definitely added to the creepiness of it.

I think Depp could pull it off.

[RBH]

Depp seems to be drawn to roles where he wears a hat.

Pretty cool in my book as Johnny wears a hat real well.

But I would love to see him wear a better looking hat than the original Kolchak wore.




And this is just my opinion on the hat.

One like this would be cool and he would give his own spin on the character.

[RBH]

By the way I was 11 when I watched the original on TV.
Man ... that was something else.
I still remember how it made me feel.

[Worf]

The original "Night Stalker" was the FIRST vampire movie to make me sweat, shiver and stay up awake all night. The vampire Janos Skorseny (extra points if you know the exploits of the REAL man by that name) made me believe in a walking, talking blood draining murder machine. He scared me, he seemed real although he never said a word through out the entire movie. The battle with the police... masterful, the showdown, thrill a minute. I hope they don't screw this up. Problem is, if you modernize it, everyone would believe he was a real vampire after the footage is placed on Youtube or facebook.

Worf

[Rats Riley]

Here's the intro!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfl0m6U8IE

AS a kid I called the music "the monster walking music".

There was the headless biker episode

The witch episode

The dinosaur episode

I don't remember the vampire one though. But damn was that show was scary to a young kid who believed in that kind of thing. Again, it was a time before you could just grab your cellphone and call for help or jump on the computer to find the legends and lore for every creepy crawler.

Another good one from that time was Salem's Lot. Scared the crap out of me with the little kid floating at the window... Still kinda creeps me out when I think about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbJ2rQ59ZE

BTW: if you want creepy scifi... anyone remember Space 1999 or the Planet of the Apes?

[Edward]

Wasn't this something they used to talk about in the early mid 90s as having been one of the inspirations for the X Files? It does look good. I've yet to see Depp in anything I didn't like, so.

[Feraud]

Yes it was an inspiration for the X-Files.

[Doctor Strange]

So, Dark Shadows hasn't even come out and flopped yet, and Johnny's rushing into another big-screen revival of a campy old TV series?!? Oy.

As much as I loved both shows in my youth, I predict that both Dark Shadows and The Night Stalker will flop big-time. Firstly, because the things that made them fun in the first place - their low budget and crappy production values, over-the-top acting and plotting, super-fast shooting schedule that meant leaving in mistakes and bad performances, etc. - will be missing from the big-budget films. Secondly, the all-important youth audience simply doesn't know either of these series, and most won't be curious enough to find out about them or see the films. (After all, The Artist just won five Oscars including Best Picture... but still did less than $4 million in domestic ticket sales last weekend: today's audience just doesn't embrace the unknown and unusual!)

Heck, even my own response as a fan of these classic fantasy series is a definite Meh...