Johnny Depp’s, picking up a razor for “Sweeney Todd,” according to the Los Angeles Times
Depp will team with longtime collaborator Tim Burton to turn Stephen Sondheim’s hit musical about a vengeful barber into a feature film, DreamWorks and Warner Bros. announced.
Production is scheduled to begin in February of next year, with the movie musical hitting theaters in late 2007, the two studios said. A DreamWorks spokesman said Depp was expected to perform his own singing.
