Joshua Collins (DS 2012)

Joshua Collins is a fictional businessman and a minor character featured in the 2012 feature film Dark Shadows. He was played by actor Ivan Kaye and appeared in flashback only.

Biography
Joshua Collins was a wealthy industrialist from Liverpool, England, who lived during the 18th century. He had a wife named Naomi and a son named Barnabas, who was born around mid-century. Joshua expressed to his son that the greatest value one could have is family. Family was more important anything, even wealth, which was easy for someone like Joshua Collins to say as he had plenty of money.

In 1760, the Collins family and their staff moved from Liverpool to to the New World where they established a fishing fleet in the territory of Maine. The following year, Joshua erected the family manor, known as Collinwood.

When Barnabas was a young man, he was in love with a woman named Josette du Près. Barnabas' former mistress, Angelique, who was a maid for the Collins family, was insanely jealous of being spurned by Barnabas and used all of her resources to cause him untold misery. Angelique was also a witch. She used her powers to cause a cornice piece of the great house to crack apart and fall just as Joshua and Naomi were taking a walk on the grounds. The huge piece of concrete came down, crushing them both to death.

Notes & Trivia

 * The character of Joshua Collins was created by director Tim Burton and screenwriters Seth Grahame-Smith and John August based on concepts originally developed by Dan Curtis and Art Wallace.


 * Joshua Collins is based on a character featured on the original Dark Shadows television series. The character was played by actor Louis Edmonds and appeared in a storyline colloquially referred to as the "1795 Flashback". Louis Edmonds also played Roger Collins in the series, as well as the 1970 feature film House of Dark Shadows. In the Dark Shadows film, Roger Collins was played by Jonny Lee Miller.


 * Joshua Collins is the second character featured in the movie.


 * Reference to Joshua Collins was made in the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows. In July of 1797, Joshua discovered that his son was a vampire, but could not bring himself to destroy him. Instead, he sealed him away inside of a coffin, bound with heavy chains inside the family mausoleum at the Collins private cemetery.