Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton may be about to team up for the seventh time.Depp is rumoured to have signed up to star in the big screen version of Dark Shadows in the lead role vampire Barnabas Collins, and Burton may be taking up directorial duties.Dark Shadows was originally an U.S television series that ran for from 1966 – 1971 for 1,125 episodes. The duo, nicknamed the happiest marriage in Hollywood, have just completed work on their sixth movie Sweeney Todd which will be released in January.The Depp/Burton dream team began in 1990 when Depp starred as the lovable Edward in Edward Scissorhands.They went on to shoot the less successful Ed Wood four years later before returnig to winning ways in 1999 with Sleepy Hollow.More recently Depp took the role of Willy Wonka in the re-make of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and ten lent his voice to the stop motion animation Corpse Bride.

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