“Dark Shadows” – Collinsport Featurette [Video]

Check out the Collinsport featurette released by Warner Bros. Pictures for Dark Shadows, which is showing on May 10th.

Collinsport is a small, coastal fishing village where the Collinwood Mansion is located. Collinwood is an “estate by the sea” that is the residence of Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp).

Rick Heinrichs, the movie’s production designer, says that they want moviegoers to feel “this character of faded glory” when they “enter” Collinwood.

“The house and the environment is a character,” director Tim Burton explains, while set decorator John Bush says that “there’s a maritime theme running through it.”

The production literally built Collinsport in a parking lot to create what was needed in the movie. It has shops, two canneries facing each other across the water, and “all the practical concerns of night and day and tides, compounded by the fact we had to blow up a factory,” Heinrichs says. “I just realized that we were going to have to, one way or another, build this.

“It’s one of the joys of filmmaking, to see those kinds of things being created,” Burton added.

Aside from Depp, Dark Shadows also stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz and Gulliver McGrath.

Watch the Collinsport featurette below.

Plot Outline:

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 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. 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.

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