Sweeney Todd
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.
Directed by
Tim Burton
Cast
Johnny Depp - Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter -Mrs. Lovett
Sacha Baron Cohen - Signor Adolfo Pirelli
Alan Rickman - Judge Turpin
Laura Michelle - Kelly Lucy
Timothy Spall - Beadle Bamford
Christopher Lee - Gentleman Ghost
Jayne Wisener - Johanna
Production Co.
Scamp Film & Theatre, Ltd.
Produced by
Patrick McCormick
Laurie MacDonald
Walter F. Parkes
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Writer
John Logan
Stephen Sondheim
Music
Stephen Sondheim
