| Jonny
Lee Miller cast in Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows”
May 18, 2011
Filming begins this week on Warner Bros. Pictures’
and Village Roadshow Pictures’ “Dark Shadows,”
which brings the cult classic television series to the big
screen under the direction of Tim Burton. The film’s
all-star ensemble cast includes Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny
Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, and newcomer Gulliver
McGrath.
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.
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. Also producing are Oscar® winner Richard
D. Zanuck (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Driving
Miss Daisy”), continuing his long association with Burton;
Oscar® winner Graham King (“Rango,” “The
Departed”), continuing his collaboration with Depp;
Johnny Depp, Christi Dembrowski, and David Kennedy. The executive
producers are Chris Lebenzon, Nigel Gostelow, Tim Headington,
and Bruce Berman.
“Dark Shadows” is being filmed entirely in England,
both at Pinewood Studios and on location.
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