Who says a pirate can’t be generous? Johnny Depp donated £1 million yesterday to the hospital that saved his eight-year-old daughter’s life.
The Daily Mail reports that Depp visited Great Ormond Street Hospital unexpectedly yesterday to personally thank the staff. Last year, Depp’s daughter, Lily-Rose, contracted E. coli poisoning so severe that her kidneys failed. Production of “Sweeney Todd” had to be halted as Lily-Rose’s condition took a turn for the worse. But doctors at Great Ormond were able to save her.
“It was the most frightening thing we have ever been through,” Depp later said of Lily-Rose’s illness. “It was hell. But the magic is that she pulled through beautifully. Great Ormond Street was terrific, a great hospital.”
This isn’t the first time Depp has surprised the residents of Great Ormond. On Nov. 29, Depp donned his Jack Sparrow costume (which he had flown over from Los Angeles) and read bedtime stories to patients for four hours.
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.
Jim Carrey and Tim Burton’s film “Believe it Or Not” may have been put on hold again, but don’t worry; the legendary director has another project in the works.
Reuters is reporting that Burton will be adapting the musical “Sweeney Todd” from the stage to the big screen.
The film has yet to be cast, but rumour has it Burton is looking at casting Johnny Depp in the lead role of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Sweeney Todd won a Tony at the theatre awards show held on Sunday ? it walked away with a best director trophy.
