Johnny Depp is going from woozy buccaneer to murderous barber.I think Johnny Depp would be perfect for the part; he's already proven to be adept in handling sharp objects.
Depp is reuniting with director Tim Burton ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") to play the title role in a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sweeney Todd," about a 19th-century barber seeking bloody revenge over his wrongful imprisonment.
The star of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," this year's biggest hit with a domestic gross of $400 million, is expected to do his own singing, said Marvin Levy, spokesman for DreamWorks, which is co-producing "Sweeney Todd" with Warner Bros.
Bit of theatre trivia; the musical Sweeney Todd is based on the 19th melodrama Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by George Dibdin-Pitt (1799-1855). The musical is great, but the original play is pretty good too, full of the grand guignol stuff that thrilled Victorian England.
PS: Any suggestions for who should play Mrs. Lovett, the maker of "the worst pies in London," played to perfection by Angela Lansbury in the original cast? Just as long as it's not Madonna...
