Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 horror musical film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical. It re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd, an English barber who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, processes their corpses into meat pies. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. However, it was not... until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when DreamWorks announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes, who had been working on such an adaptation. Sondheim, although not directly involved, was extensively consulted during the film's production. It stars Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd and Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett. Depp, not known for his singing, took lessons in preparation for his role, which producer Richard D. Zanuck acknowledged was something of a gamble.
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| Release date: | December 3, 2007 |
| Directed by: | Tim Burton |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 117 Minutes |
| Producer: | Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Richard D. Zanuck, John Logan |
| Editor: | Chris Lebenzon |
| Music by: | Stephen Sondheim |
| Cinematography: | Dariusz Wolski |
| Screenplay by: | John Logan |
| Estimated budget: | $50,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Genre: | Musical |