Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are at it again. After topping our past list of director/actor pairings that need a break, the duo haven’t listened and with their $1 billion-plus grossing Alice in Wonderland, they are working together again in Dark Shadows. Just when it looked like Depp was finally having some fun again in The Rum Diary, we now have our first official look at his upcoming Dark Shadows, which finds Burton playing in the same gothic arena.
EW provides the still above which features the a 200-year-old vampire Depp as Barnabas Collins and much of our large ensemble cast, which Burton took in the early days of production. One can compare it to the still from the original show below, while the new cast includes Chloe Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jackie Earle Haley, Christopher Lee, Jonny Lee Miller, Thomas McDonell and Bella Heathcote.
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.
Dark Shadows hits theaters on May 11th, 2012.
What do you think of the first image? Are you a fan of the original?