Dr. Phibes Rises Again... and Again... Courtesy of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp

I'm told that news of a remake of Bob Fuest's THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES starring Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton was announced in today's "Variety" and the other trades. (I cannot positively confirm this, as of yet, though.) This seems like an ideal time to announce that I have been expanding my lengthy, definitive making-of article on THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (which ran last year in Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine) into a DR. PHIBES COMPANION book for publication in 2014. The initial DR. PHIBES article will be expanded and the book will include, among many other things, never-before-published images of drawings, notes, etc. from Fuest's personal shooting script. More news to come...