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When he was growing up, Johnny Depp<\/a> always had a taste for the macabre. Then, when he formed a creative relationship with his directorial muse Tim Burton, he was delighted to find out they were both die-hard ghouls, not to mention superfans of the same 1950s horror icon Vincent Price. As two oddball guys growing up with weird, gothic tastes, Price spoke to both men\u2019s cinematic predilections, and the shared fandom helped bond them.<\/p>\n When Depp was cast in\u00a0Edward Scissorhands, it didn\u2019t take long for him to realise he\u2019d met a kindred spirit in Burton. They would strike up one of modern Hollywood\u2019s most enduring relationships, collaborating on six more movies over the next three decades, defining a particular brand of gothic fairytale in the process. <\/p>\n After signing on to that first movie, Depp must have been astonished when he heard who Burton had cast to play The Inventor, the \u2018father\u2019 of the straggly-haired, leather-bodysuit-clad Edward, an uncommonly gentle scissor-handed gardener and sculptor. Suddenly, he found himself acting opposite Price, the star of so many of his favourite horror films<\/a> from that classic period in the 1950s and \u201960s, such as The Fly, The Pit and the Pendulum, and House on Haunted Hill. <\/p>\n \u201cI adored him,\u201d Depp told Fangoria about his idol, who was 78 years old when Edward Scissorhands was shot. \u201cAs did Tim, a long time before me. So we spent time together, hung out. I was totally enamoured.\u201d<\/p>\n For Depp, the pinnacle of Price perfection was always the 1953 effort House of Wax, a grisly mystery in which Price played a deformed sculptor who murders people and displays their wax-covered corpses in a perverse recreation of his wax museum that previously burned down. So, when asked in 1994 which Price role he\u2019d love to take a crack at in a remake, Depp immediately said, \u201cHouse of Wax, now that would be cool.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the years, Depp\u2019s dream remake never came to pass, although Burton also floated a similar idea at one point. Controversially, it didn\u2019t include Depp, as the Batman director pondered mounting a musical adaptation starring the \u2013 admittedly waxlike \u2013 Michael Jackson. \u201cThey said \u2018no,’\u201d Burton giggled about being turned down by a major studio. \u201cCan you believe that?!\u201d<\/p>\n