Word is one of Johnny’s new upcoming projects could be a another collaboration with his good buddy Tim Burton doing a remake of a 1960's cult classic Dark Shadows. It was a supernatural drama with ghosts, werewolves, monsters, witches and a vampire named Barnabas Collins who Johnny is apparently set to play. The Los Angeles Times however is bleating that playing a vampire is a curse in Hollywood and that he could actually be "driving a stake through any hope" of an oscar in the foot by going down that road. Actually, I don’t think Johnny gives a fiddler’s fart about an oscar – he’s NEVER actively campaigned for an oscar. Johnny has said he watched the highly addictive Gothic soap at home as a kid, “I was obsessed with Barnabas Collins,” he admits. “I have photos of me holding Barnabas Collins posters when I was five or six.” Depp and Burton are busy now gearing up to unveil “Alice in Wonderland,” but Burton assures the L.A. Times that they’ll team up for a feature film version of “Dark Shadows” in the future. “That’s the plan,” Burton says. “There was something very weird about that, it had the weirdest vibe to it. I’m sort of intrigued about that vibe.”