In this film, Johnny Depp saw an opportunity to wear the makeup of monsters that rocked his cinema and thought that he would become the best vampire at a time when Hollywood was experiencing “vampire mania”, but the dark shadows he took. Accomplice Tim Burton turned out to be a terrible disappointment!
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When asked on the red carpet in 2012 how much of a threat Robert Pattinson’s Edward was compared to Barnabas Collins’ character in Burton’s Twilight saga, Johnny Depp responded. American magazine :
There’s room for two vampires—as long as he remembers that I’m the alpha vampire.
A provocative statement to say the least, but it must be remembered that Dark Shadows materialized the years of waiting for Depp, who wanted to play a vampire since 2007 and the filming of Sweeney Todd. So he proudly announced that he would be the ultimate vampire.
Ultimately, Twilight – Chapter 5: Revelation Part 2 came out a few months after Dark Shadows and completely overshadowed it at the box office. The latest opus in Stephenie Meyer’s literary saga earned $292.3 million on American soil and $829.7 million worldwide, while Dark Shadows collected $79.7 million and only $245.5 million worldwide!
A slap in the face to Johnny Depp, who, like Tim Burton, was a big fan of the Sixties soap opera Dark Shadows, on which the film is based. Then the actor experiences a journey in the desert with films that are a miserable failure for many: The Lone Ranger (260.5 million worldwide), Rhum Express (30 million), Transcendence (103 million budget 100), but also Charlie Mordecai (47.2 million), Tusk ( 1.8 million) or hardened criminals (99.9 million).
At the same time, Robert Pattinson climbed the ranks of independent cinema one by one with demanding films such as David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, David Michaud’s Rover, Robert Eggers’ Lighthouse, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z, Good Time. Safdi brothers or the devil, all time author Antonio Campos.
In recent years, Robert Pattinson became the new Bruce Wayne in a new version of Batman Adventures, and Johnny Depp made his new directorial feature after more than 25 years from the Amedeo Modigliani biopic The Brave: Modi.
Source: Allocine
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