Another Burton-y Look at Johnny Depp as Barnabas in 'Dark Shadows'

Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:12 Written by Jordan DeSaulnier

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Another Burton-y Look at Johnny Depp as Barnabas in 'Dark Shadows'

Exactly one week ago, you might have seen an image of Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer in Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's theatrical revival of the 1966-1977 gothic soap opera created by Dan Curtis. That still constituted our best look at Depp as Barnabas Collins, a vampire who has been kicking around for a couple of decades, but today you can take a peek at a solo image of Depp at his most Barnabased-out.

Check out the image below, courtesy of CineHeroes. The eighth collaboration between Burton and Depp has resulted in another pasty, effeminate imp, this time with some creepy Nosferatu style vampire fingers rather than rusty garden shears. In the 1700's, Barnabas here was a wealthy playboy who made the mistake of having a dalliance with a witch played by Eva Green. When he breaks her heart, she gifts him with the curse of vampirism. Then, just to be sure, she buried him alive for two hundred years.

Once Barnabas wakes up in the 1970's, Barnabas naturally his his old home, the dilapidated Collinwood Manor. There he finds his descendants and a cast of assorted characters played by Pfeiffer, Green, Jonny Lee Miller, Helena Bonham Carter, Chloe Moretz, Jackie Earle Haley, Bella Heathcote, and Gulliver McGrath.

Burton directs the film from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith, the mashup author responsible for the novelty concepts Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Burton is producing the film adaption of Abraham Lincoln, while also directing the stop-motion feature Frankenweenie, due on October 5th.

Dark Shadows is set for May 11th.