Michelle Pfeiffer to Team with Tim Burton Again in “Dark Shadows”

(HMG Celebrity News) – Michelle Pfeiffer is finding herself very much in demand this new year with role in New Line’s all-star “New Year’s Eve” and “Welcome to People,” the directorial debut of scribe Alex Kurtzman.  After a four-year hiatus, during which she remained largely out of the public eye and devoted time to her husband and children, Pfeiffer returned to the screen in 2007 and never looked back.

Pfeiffer is now reportedly in negotiations to reteam with Tim Burton for “Dark Shadows,” Warner Bros’ big-screen take on the 1960s gothic vampire TV soap opera starring Johnny Depp.  The last time she worked with Burton was in 1992′s “Batman Returns” where she  played Catwoman.

In Dark Shadows, Pfeiffer would play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the reclusive matriarch of the Collins family which runs the Maine town. The character has not left the mansion since the disappearance of her husband a decade earlier.  Depp will portray Barnabas Collins, a self-loathing vampire living in a Maine manor who is searching for his lost love.

The movie has an April start and has been casting up, with Jackie Earle Haley, Eva Green and Bella Heatcote already on board.

In addition, Deadline has learned that Burton’s partner Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to play Dr. Julia Hoffman, a specialist in psychology and rare blood disorders who moves into Collinwood.

Filming is set to begin in April.