Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Together Again
Actor Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton are teaming up once again. The two will collaborate on a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s stage musical, “Sweeney Todd.”
DreamWorks studio made the announcement on Thursday. The film is slated for release in late 2007.
Depp and Burton have worked together many times before, most notably on films like “Edward Scissorhands,” “Sleepy Hollow,” and most recently on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
Depp will play the film’s title character, a razor-wielding barbar who seeks revenge against a judge for wrongful imprisonment.
Though many versions of the story, which stems from British lore, have been produced, the film will be based on Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” interpretation. It was a hit on Broadway in 1979, earning eight Tony Awards.
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