AUTHOR: Terri
Playbill.com – It looks like Stephen Sondheim
and Hugh Wheeler’s version of the tale of Sweeney Todd is finally headed to the silver screen – By Andrew
Gans.
Variety reports that Johnny Depp will star as the vengeful barber in the film musical,
which will be directed by Tim Burton. Burton will helm the movie, which was developed by DreamWorks, for
Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter John Logan has adapted the Sondheim-Wheeler musical for the screen.
“Sweeney Todd” is being put on the fast track because another Burton project, “Ripley’s Believe It
or Not,” has been sent back into development. That film was to star Jim Carrey as the famed
explorer-reporter.
“Sweeney Todd” will mark yet another Depp-Burton collaboration. The Hollywood actor has previously
been directed by Burton in “Edward Scissorhands,” “Ed Wood,” “Sleepy Hollow,”
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and the animated film “The Corpse Bride.”
