Talk about a gloomy bunch! Entertainment Weekly has premiered the first official photo from the set of Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS, which you can see above. (Click on it to see a slightly bigger version.) Depicting the bloodsucking Collins crew, this picture was apparently taken one day before the official start of production. I suppose any concerns we might have had after the first odd pictures of Johnny Depp as “Barnabus Collins” can be put to rest now, as he’s doesn’t nearly resemble the odd combo of Willy Wonka and Michael Jackson as he did then.
From left to right: Helena Bonham Carter as “Dr. Julia Hoffman”; Chloe Moretz as “Carolyn Stoddard” ; Eva Green as ” Angelique Bouchard”; Gulliver McGrath as “David Collins”; Bella Heathcote as “Victoria Winters”; Johnny Depp as “Barnabus Collins” Ray Shirley as “Mrs. Johnson”; Jackie Earle Haley as “Willie Loomis”; Jonny Lee Miller as “Roger Collins”; and Michelle Pfeiffer as “Elizabeth Collins Stoddard”.
“I remember seeing a group photograph of the cast of the original series,” Tim Burton tells EW. “For me it captured the weird Dark Shadows vibe in a single image. I had a brief window of opportunity to have our cast present at the same time, the day before principle photography began. We decided to stage a similar picture instead of rehearsing, to see if we captured the Dark Shadows feeling.”
If you want to know more about these characters, head on over to EW; screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith spills some info about this horrific clan. DARK SHADOWS opens on MAY 11, 2011.
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