Today's Playbill announced that the DreamWorks/Warner Bros./Paramount film of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical Sweeney Todd — starring Johnny Depp as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street — will arrive in movie theatres nationwide December 21st. The film is expected to receive an R rating.You can see the trailer here.
The film adaptation of the Sondheim musical was penned by John Logan ("The Aviator," "Gladiator"). Tim Burton directs a cast that also includes Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman (Private Lives, the "Harry Potter" films) as Judge Turpin, Timothy Spall ("Harry Potter") as Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen ("Borat," "Talladega Nights") as Signor Adolfo Pirelli.
Rounding out the cast are Laura Michelle Kelly (Fiddler on the Roof) as the Beggar Woman, Jamie Campbell Bowen as Anthony, Jayne Wisener as Johanna and newcomer Ed Sanders as Toby.
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can Johnny Depp sing? i can't wait to see this. i saw a phenomenal community production of this a couple of years ago... so this will be awesome! i love JD- so i figure it can't go wrong!! :)
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