Tim Burton is currently shooting his newest flick Dark Shadows, starring frequent collaborator Johnny Depp. Based on the 60’s TV show of the same name, the film is written by novelist and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith. The first official images were recently released which show the filmmaker’s penchant for infusing stories with wonderfully weird characters that inhabit strange and beautiful environments.
The billion dollar haul of his ‘Alice In Wonderland’ retelling, confirmed the global fan base which flock to see films, and his next creation will likely be no exception. In the flick, Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, an 18th century playboy who was turned into a vampire and entombed by Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), a powerful witch who sought revenge after he broke her heart. When he awakens two centuries later in 1972, he returns to the dilapidated Manor and meets the remnants of the dysfunctional Collins family.
The film also stars Chloe Moretz, Gulliver McGrath, Bella Heathcote, Ray Shirley, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Check out the set pics here:
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Here’s the official synopsis:
In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet—or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive.
Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.
Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.
Dark Shadows opens May 11, 2012.
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