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12:53 pm - 03/07/2012

New 'Dark Shadows' images featuring Queen Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp, and Collinwood Manor



New images have been revealed from the upcoming film 'Dark Shadows'.


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 Brouchard (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.



Tim Burton is directing and producing Dark Shadows from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith, story by John August and Grahame-Smith, based on the television series created by Dan Curtis. The behind-the-scenes creative team includes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, Oscar®-winning production designer Rick Heinrichs (Sleepy Hollow), Oscar®-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland) and editor Chris Lebenzon (Alice in Wonderland). The score will be composed by Danny Elfman.

Dark Shadows is being filmed entirely in England, both at Pinewood Studios and on location and stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, and newcomer Gulliver McGrath.

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Before anyone rants, yes Johnny Depp looks that way because they are trying to stay as accurate to the source material as possible, so that's how he looked in the original show. And before anyone bitches about Michelle, she is playing an aging matriarch in a gothic horror soap opera; her character wasn't to have left the mansion in decades. So yes, that might factor into her styling.

azul_bleu 7th-Mar-2012 06:13 pm (UTC)
Michelle is without flaws.
winonaforever 7th-Mar-2012 06:13 pm (UTC)
Johhny Depp can go to hell, but Queen Michelle remains flawless. <3
_scarlett_icons 7th-Mar-2012 06:14 pm (UTC)
Love them all. Can't wait for this.
dreamofcoffee 7th-Mar-2012 06:14 pm (UTC)
Looking forward to this. Hope it's good.
transientv 7th-Mar-2012 06:36 pm (UTC)
Benny and Joon is forever the best movie. Love.

JD is flaw free in it as well! I Stan for Sam.
dreamofcoffee 7th-Mar-2012 06:45 pm (UTC)
Ikr?! I love it so much.
whiskybars 7th-Mar-2012 07:13 pm (UTC)
i can't believe he was 30 when he made this film tbh

Edited at 2012-03-07 07:14 pm (UTC)
ellimac_x 7th-Mar-2012 07:15 pm (UTC)
SAM ♥
latinaxbabie22 7th-Mar-2012 08:40 pm (UTC)
I'm excited too!

P.S. I love Sam/Johnny (See icon)
dreamofcoffee 7th-Mar-2012 09:07 pm (UTC)
You have perfect taste, bb. That's one of my favorite scenes in the film. :3
dirrtypony 7th-Mar-2012 06:16 pm (UTC)
i think this looks badass.
heart_iswild 7th-Mar-2012 06:23 pm (UTC)
i wish jdepp would start making films where he's allowed to be gorgeous again tbqh
whiskybars 7th-Mar-2012 07:09 pm (UTC)
ugh, ita
loveling 7th-Mar-2012 10:16 pm (UTC)
rum diary?
heart_iswild 7th-Mar-2012 10:58 pm (UTC)
*movies that don't suck
whiskybars 7th-Mar-2012 11:24 pm (UTC)
lol unlikely tbh

which is unfortunate and frustrating ugh
heart_iswild 7th-Mar-2012 11:42 pm (UTC)
what is the deal do you think? it's not as if he can't act. but the roles he's been choosing are just...........oy
whiskybars 7th-Mar-2012 11:47 pm (UTC)
i honestly have no idea. but as a stan it's incredibly frustrating.

i'm guessing money? though it's not as if he's in dire need of any. i don't want him to pull a dicaprio and ride oscar bait projects honestly, any good movie where he is without shitty make up is good enough for me at this point
endingonfire 8th-Mar-2012 01:35 am (UTC)
I liked the first half a lot and in the second half it went to total shit.
evilgmbethy 7th-Mar-2012 06:23 pm (UTC)
post needs more Jonny Lee Miller

I don't really care for Johnny Depp but I'm looking forward to this movie like crazy. Love Michelle Pfeiffer.
mulholland 7th-Mar-2012 06:26 pm (UTC)
everyone should watch the original show
episodes 100-600 or so
http://www.scayre.com/tv/DS/darkshadows.htm
this site has em all
transientv 7th-Mar-2012 06:36 pm (UTC)
Oooh thanks bb!
castevet 7th-Mar-2012 07:05 pm (UTC)
yessss, so addictive
mulholland 8th-Mar-2012 02:29 am (UTC)
hey i invited you to an ot community

check ur community invites xx
nemo_de_la_meer 7th-Mar-2012 08:27 pm (UTC)
Good job lady! :)

*saving link* I adore this show.
sequined_bones 7th-Mar-2012 10:01 pm (UTC)
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, i've spent the last week trying to find this show online and had almost given up.
mulholland 8th-Mar-2012 02:28 am (UTC)
no problem! they have like 100 episodes on netflix too.
belladonnastrap 7th-Mar-2012 06:27 pm (UTC)
Hm. Interesting.

OMG A CHERI GIF!
leprince504 7th-Mar-2012 06:28 pm (UTC)
seeing it just for Queen Pfeiffer. she's always such a beautiful, flawless villainess.
nastyposition 7th-Mar-2012 06:29 pm (UTC)
she looks flawless in the first pic
jennomac 7th-Mar-2012 06:30 pm (UTC)
Michelle Pfeiffer is everything that is beautiful and flawless in this world. Entirely perfect in every way.
grotesque_xxx 7th-Mar-2012 06:31 pm (UTC)
flawless queen <3

flwless OP <3

Edited at 2012-03-07 06:33 pm (UTC)
getnassty 7th-Mar-2012 06:36 pm (UTC)
She looks stunning.
vickyblueeyez 7th-Mar-2012 06:38 pm (UTC)
I like whatever she's wearing. Especially the choker or whatever that neck piece is.
rogue 7th-Mar-2012 06:42 pm (UTC)
I was youtubing videos of her as Catwoman yesterday and I was so impressed.

Dem cheekbones.
lafhaha 7th-Mar-2012 06:47 pm (UTC)
Dammit. now I have to watch Grease 2.
tres_francais 7th-Mar-2012 06:47 pm (UTC)
She doesn't look a day over 37.
maryhurt 7th-Mar-2012 06:57 pm (UTC)
depp looks so young here. and I'm actually kind of excited for this.
grammaire 7th-Mar-2012 07:04 pm (UTC)
She is PERFECT.
prophecypro 7th-Mar-2012 07:06 pm (UTC)
kinda looking forward to this
whiskybars 7th-Mar-2012 07:10 pm (UTC)
FLAWLESS AS USUAL

tim works in extremes so this will either be excruciating or really good. either way i'm kinda excited
whatyawaiting4 7th-Mar-2012 07:36 pm (UTC)
Why would anyone bitch about Shelly? Her styling looks impeccable.
die2nitelive4ev 7th-Mar-2012 07:40 pm (UTC)
I want to live there
sparkfactory 7th-Mar-2012 08:17 pm (UTC)
omg the house looks amaaaaaaazing
nemo_de_la_meer 7th-Mar-2012 08:28 pm (UTC)
I like how there are obviously some changes, but it looks like Dark Shadows to me. Please, for the love of god, can this script be decent?
angstandennui 7th-Mar-2012 09:24 pm (UTC)
I've actually seen the trailer. It seems more comedic than dark, gothic and romantic (which is what I assumed the original TV show was like - I've never seen it).

agdhani 7th-Mar-2012 09:01 pm (UTC)
god that house looks beautiful...just from the staircase!
sinful_caesar 8th-Mar-2012 07:55 am (UTC)
OP, mad props to you for your devotion to the fabulous Miss Michelle
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