"Never Forget. Never Forgive" Synopsis Prologue: A Tale of "Sweeney Todd" Act One: Adapting "Sweeney Todd" to the Screen Act Two: The Cast Act Three: Music and Songs Act Four: Designing Sweeney's World Epilogue The Legend of Sweeney Todd The Media and Penny Dreadfuls

Directed by: Tim Burton Screenplay by: John Logan Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Lee, Jamie Campbell Bowen, Jayne Wisener, Laura Michelle Kelly Running Time: 117 minutis Rating: R for graphic bloody violence. Box Office: Release Date: December 21st, 2007 Studio: Paramount Pictures When evil Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) takes a fancy to his beautiful wife and throws him in prison for a crime he did not commit, London barber Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) vows revenge. Sweeney applies his razor to unlucky customers in his shop, then shuttles the bodies down to his partner-in-crime, Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), who uses the flesh to give her meat pies an extra zing. Though many fall to his blade, Sweeney will not be satisfied until his razor finds Turpin's throat. The story of "Sweeney Todd" is of a wrongfully imprisoned barber in Victorian England who sets out to seek revenge on the judge who imprisoned him. The plot is foreshadowed in the first lines of the opening number: "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd./His skin was pale and his eye was odd./He shaved the faces of gentlemen/Who never thereafter were heard of again." 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. Read Production Notes

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