Tim Burton’s new movie, a big-screen version of the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, is set to start shooting in April and we are getting regular announcements regarding the cast. Michelle Pfeiffer, who played Catwoman in Burton’s 1992 film Batman Returns, is in negotiations to star as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the reclusive matriarch of the Collins family. Pfeiffer is currently shooting Welcome to People, the directorial debut of screenwriter Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek, Transformers, Cowboys & Aliens) and written with writing partner Roberto Orci, in which she plays the widowed mother of Chris Pine’s character who returns home for his father’s funeral.
Tim Burton often casts actors he has worked with previously in his films. There are rumours that his partner Helena Bonham Carter may be getting a role in Dark Shadows, which would make it their 7th film together.
Long-time Burton collaborator Johnny Depp is playing the lead character, Barnabas Collins, a self-loathing vampire searching for his lost love. Also confirmed are Jackie Earle Haley as conman Willie Loomis, Eva Green as Angelique the witch and Bella Heatcote as Victoria Winters, a young governess at the Collins estate.
What do you think about Tim Burton regularly casting the same actors in his films, such as Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter?
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