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It’s always interesting to get a behind-the-scenes look at a movie, and even more interesting when some of the principle people involved share their inspirations for the film. That’s exactly what we get with this official featurette for “Dark Shadows.”

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp both share with us some of their own inspiration for their roles in making this movie. It turns out that Depp has been inspired by plenty of vampires down through film history, from Nosferatu and Bela Lugosi all the way to Christopher Lee (who has a role in the film as well). Of course, his primary inspiration for this particular character came from Jonathan Frid’s (RIP) portrayal in the 1970s soap opera of the same name. Check out the featurette below and let us know what you think. “Dark Shadows” opens on May 11th, 2012.
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Official Synopsis: 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.
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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.
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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.