Now Eva Green is in talks to cast a spell over Johnny Depp as the witch Angelique in "Dark Shadows," TheWrap has confirmed
In addition to playing doomed arm candy in "Casino Royale," Green starred in Bernardo Bertolucci's sexually explicit "The Dreamers."
"Dark Shadows" marks the umpteenth collaboration between Depp and Tim Burton, who have paired memorably in everything from "Sleepy Hollow" to "Sweeney Todd."
The Warner Brothers film will be a big screen adaptation of the 1960s small screen, gothic soap opera.
Depp will play the vampire Barnabas Collins. Jackie Earle Haley (no stranger to playing creepy) is circling the role of the con man Loomis and newcomer Bella Heathcoate is in talks to play a young governess.
News of the trio's imminent casting was first reported on Deadline.
Now Eva Green is in talks to cast a spell over Johnny Depp as the witch Angelique in "Dark Shadows," TheWrap has confirmed
In addition to playing doomed arm candy in "Casino Royale," Green starred in Bernardo Bertolucci's sexually explicit "The Dreamers."
"Dark Shadows" marks the umpteenth collaboration between Depp and Tim Burton, who have paired memorably in everything from "Sleepy Hollow" to "Sweeney Todd."
The Warner Brothers film will be a big screen adaptation of the 1960s small screen, gothic soap opera.
Depp will play the vampire Barnabas Collins. Jackie Earle Haley (no stranger to playing creepy) is circling the role of the con man Loomis and newcomer Bella Heathcoate is in talks to play a young governess.
News of the trio's imminent casting was first reported on Deadline.
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.
