Depp to star in ‘Sweeney Todd’ the feature film
Johnny Depp wielded a cutlass in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies. Now he’s picking up a razor for “Sweeney Todd.”
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 Wednesday.
Production is scheduled to begin early 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; the actor previously appeared in the 1990 musical “Cry-Baby” and performed in a rock band called P.
It’s not the first time the Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler musical, the winner of eight Tony Awards, has been performed for cameras; a 1982 television production paired George Hearn and Angela Lansbury.
Depp and Burton have joined forces on five other films: “Ed Wood,” “Corpse Bride,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Edward Scissorhands” and “Sleepy Hollow.”
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