Interview - Tim Burton & Johnny Depp (’Sweeney Todd’)
WHO WILL SHAVE YOUR SOUL?
Tonsorial talk with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
Interview by Robert Nesti
At the onset of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, there’s a short clip that highlights the collaboration between director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp. In a series of quick cuts, scenes from Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood, The Corpse Bride and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory flash across the screen, making viewers aware of the remarkable artistic relationship between these two artists.
Sweeney Todd, though, may be their most challenging project to date. Adapted from Stephen Sondheim’s landmark 1979 Broadway musical, it follows the bloody exploits of a serial killer in Victorian London who dispatches his victims by cutting their throats and, in an unholy alliance with an enterprising baker, turns their remains into meat pies that become the toast of the town. On stage the musical was a shocker – an […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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