LOS ANGELES (AP) — Johnny Depp is going from woozy buccaneer to murderous barber.
Depp is reuniting with director Tim Burton (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ) to play the title role in a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd, about a 19th-century barber seeking bloody revenge over his wrongful imprisonment.
The star of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, this year's biggest hit with a domestic gross of $400 million, is expected to do his own singing, said Marvin Levy, spokesman for DreamWorks, which is co-producing Sweeney Todd with Warner Bros.
Sweeney Todd marks the sixth collaboration between Depp and Burton, who scored a blockbuster in summer 2005 with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which the actor played the reclusive candyman Willy Wonka.
Their other films together are Tim Burton's Corpse Bride,Edward Scissorhands,Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow.
The filmmakers plan to start shooting Sweeney Todd early in 2007.
11 comments:
Johnny Depp is my favorite actor.
He's pretty good but come on; he's no Steve Guttenberg. Now THAT guy can carry a picture.
I hate everything having to do with Stephen Sondheim. When I'm done punching Sondheim I'll go over and punch Mandy Patinkin too, just for good measure.
I like Russell Crowe more than Johnny Depp.
For shame, Jordan!
But Russell Crowe got drunk and insulted the Jews! Oh wait, I'm getting my Australians mixed up.
Stupid Australia!
What did Mandy Patinkin do, anyway?
He's the jerk "broadway" guy whom we're supposed to love so much because he's so damn good with the shmaltzy music etc. He was in Dick Tracy and a few other things like maybe The Princess Bride. He put out a record of "his friend Stephen's songs." Sondheim wouldn't know a melody if it was the theme song of me beating him up but somehow he's a "musical genius" whom you're not allowed to criticize because it just reveals how ignorant you are of "broadway." Ugh.
So, JPX, you gonna check out this movie or what?
He's your fayyyvorite actor!
(JPX loathes musicals, that's why this is fun.)
"JPX loathes musicals, that's why this is fun"
But I love Depp so what am I to do? This is certainly a pickle.
A dilly of a pickle.
dude, hands off of inigo montoya
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