1st official cast photo of Dark Shadows movie, stars Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins

[MikeBear]

Here's the real thing:

Behold the real visage of Johnny Depp’s vampire from Dark Shadows!

Last week, long-range paparazzi shots of the actor wearing ghostly white makeup, large sunglasses and a pulled down fedora made fans of the original 1966-71 supernatural soap opera bristle nervously, with complaints he looked simply too strange.

Nevermind that he’s playing a 200-year-old vampire, which is strange enough.

As you can see from this cast shot, Depp’s bloodsucking pater familias Barnabas Collins actually borrows heavily from the aged-little boy look of original Dark Shadows star Jonathan Frid — not that anyone would be happy to see this guy show up as your prom date either.

More at the link.

Johnny Depp's 'Dark Shadows' vampire revealed! | Inside Movies | EW.com

From left to right;

Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter)
Carolyn Stoddard (Chloë Moretz)
Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green)
David Collins (Gulliver McGrath)
Victoria Winters (Bella Heathcote)
Barnabas Collins (Depp)
Mrs. Johnson (sitting way back, Ray Shirley)
Willie Loomis (Jackie Earle Haley)
Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller)
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer).

Directed by Tim Burton

Looks quite "Addams Family". I can't wait until this hits the theaters next May!