Johnny Depp and Director Tim Burton have become over the past 20+ years partners in crime when it comes to moviemaking. Their partnership began in 1990 with Edward Scissorhands, continued in 1994 with Ed Wood, and has continued steadily with Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Sweeney Todd (2010). They have teamed up for this year’s Dark Shadows, along with Michelle Pfeiffer (Burton’s Batman Returns Catwoman), Chloe Grace Moretz (Let Me In, Hugo), Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, The King’s Speech), Eva Green (Womb), and Jonny Lee Miller (The Escapist, Trainspotting).
Johnny Depp and Director Tim Burton have become over the past 20+ years partners in crime when it comes to moviemaking. Their partnership began in 1990 with Edward Scissorhands, continued in 1994 with Ed Wood, and has continued steadily with Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Sweeney Todd (2010). 
They have teamed up for this year’s Dark Shadows, along with Michelle Pfeiffer (Burton’s Batman Returns Catwoman), Chloe Grace Moretz (Let Me In, Hugo), Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, The King’s Speech), Eva Green (Womb), and Jonny Lee Miller (The Escapist, Trainspotting).
Dark Shadows is the film adaptation of the classic Television series “Dark Shadows” that starred Jonathan Frid as the main character Barnabas Collins (now played by Johnny Depp) and Joan Bennett as matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer steps into this role) from 1967-1971. The largest difference between the TV series and the most-recent film adaptation written by Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter novel/screenplay) appears to be the tone of the film. If memory serves correct the TV series was very much a drama, and not much humor abounded (unless it was unintentional). Burton, Depp, and Grahame-Smith are all about the humor in Dark Shadows, and from the looks of the clips, trailers, and featurettes for the film it is going to be a riot. Depp and Burton rarely let audiences down with their films, especially those they make together. Dark Shadows looks to be a return to the Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood days of their partnership–and that is a great thing.
Watch all the clips, trailers, and featurettes from the film now. Dark Shadows opens in theatres on May 11, 2012.
About The Film:
In the year 1750, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from England to start a new life in America, where they build a fishing empire in the coastal Maine town that comes to carry their name: Collinsport. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of falling in love with a beauty named Josette DuPres (Bella Heathcote) and 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.
Nearly two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972, a stranger in an even stranger time. Returning to Collinwood Manor, he finds that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin, and the dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets.
Family matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the one person Barnabas entrusts with the truth of his identity. But his rather odd and anachronistic behavior immediately raises the suspicions of the live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), who has no idea what kind of problems she’s really digging up.
As Barnabas sets out to restore his family name to its former glory, one thing stands in his way: Collinsport’s leading denizen, who goes by the name Angie…and who bears a striking resemblance to a very old acquaintance of Barnabas Collins.
Also residing in Collinwood Manor are Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloë Grace Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gully McGrath). The longsuffering caretaker of Collinwood is Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley), and new to the Collins’ employ is David’s nanny, Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote), who is, mysteriously, the mirror image of Barnabas’ one true love, Josette.
Kathryn Schroeder, Promotional Materials, 2012, News, Coming Soon