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This time to bring us a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical thriller “Sweeney Todd“. The thing that really caught my eye, though was the other castings thus far: Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Timothy Spall (Wormtail from Harry Potter. You know, the first film I really remember him in was Rock Star – he totally stole the screen) -{c}

From Slice of SciFi:

Sweeny Todd — The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Posted by Sam on Monday, 1 Oct 2007

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller “Sweeney Todd.”

Depp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter.

When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who “shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again.”

Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney’s amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends Sweeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge’s wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo Pirelli. The film opens in theaters on December 21, 2007 in the United States and over the following two months internationally.