USA: Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer arrive on the "black" carpet for Los Angeles premiere of the melodramatic/comedy vampire flim "Dark Shadows"
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USA: Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer arrive on the "black" carpet for Los Angeles premiere of the melodramatic/comedy vampire flim "Dark Shadows"
- Title: USA: Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer arrive on the "black" carpet for Los Angeles premiere of the melodramatic/comedy vampire flim "Dark Shadows"
- Date: 8th May 2012
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 07, 2012) (REUTERS) (*** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) WIDE SHOT OF "DARK SHADOWS" MOVIE POSTER PHOTOGRAPHERS JOHNNY DEPP ARRIVING MICHELLE PFEIFFER ARRIVING JOHNNY DEPP WAVING ON THE BLACK CARPET PETER FONDA ARRIVING AT THE PREMIERE PHOTOGRAPHERS ROCKER ALICE COOPER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHNNY DEPP ON THE ORIGINAL "DARK SHADOWS" SOAP OPERA, SAYING: "Well, it was just the idea of bringing that feeling, that feeling that we all had, that excitement that we all had that forced us to run home and watch that show that was unlike anything else. There was nothing like it what's so ever." MICHELLE PFEIFFER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHNNY DEPP ON THE "DARK SHADOWS" MOVIE, SAYING: "In terms of the transition to cinema, there was no way to take that show as it was filmed and to take that to cinema. Basically, what we did was use the feelings that we got from it and our memories from it and beefed it up." MICHELLE PFEIFFER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) MICHELLE PFEIFFER ON BEING A FAN OF "DARK SHADOWS," SAYING: "When I was a kid, I was obsessed, obsessed with vampires. I went to every Dracula movie. I would sprint home from the bus stop to get in front of the television to watch "Dark Shadows" because it was on in the afternoon. Come to find out, kids all across America were doing the same thing. DIRECTOR TIM BURTON AND AEROSMITH SINGER STEVEN TYLER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) TIM BURTON ON DEPP'S INTEREST IN SEEING THE FILM MADE, SAYING: "This is the first time that I've ever worked with him that something meant a lot to him. Something that before he ever became an actor he dreamed of playing Barnabus Collins. So, it was very personal for him." MICHELLE PFEIFFER ON THE ARRIVAL LINE ALICE COOPER WIDE CAST SHOT
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- Story Text: Johnny Depp and co-star Michelle Pfeiffer joined castmates Monday night (May 07) on an appropriate shade of "black carpet" for the Los Angeles premiere of the meldramatic/comedy vampire film, "Dark Shadows."
The normally super-cool actor gushed on about the original daytime TV soap opera of the same name that sets the theme and characters of the current silver screen version.
"Well, it was just the idea of bringing that feeling," said Depp, explaining his love of the TV series that aired from 1966 through 1971.
"That feeling that we all had, that excitement that we all had that forced us to run home and watch that show that was unlike anything else. There was nothing like it what's so ever."
Directed by Tim Burton, Depp plays Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows," a rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy of the 18th century, until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard, played by actress 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. Nearly two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972, a stranger in an even stranger time. Returning to Collinwood Manor, he finds that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin, and the dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets.
Michelle Pfeiffer, who co-stars in the film as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, also shares similar stories about growing up on the original "Dark Shadows."
"When I was a kid, I was obsessed, obsessed with vampires. I went to every Dracula movie. I would sprint home from the bus stop to get in front of the television to watch 'Dark Shadows' because it was on in the afternoon. Come to find out, kids all across America were doing the same thing," said Pfeiffer.
Depp added that the idea behind the movie wasn't to just do a remake of the old show.
"In terms of the transition to cinema, there was no way to take that show as it was filmed and to take that to cinema," said Depp. "Basically, what we did was use the feelings that we got from it and our memories from it and beefed it up."
"Dark Shadows" opens on May 11. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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