Director: Tim Burton

Writers: John Logan (screenplay) and Stephen Sondheim (musical).

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Info about Sweeney Todd: Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp), a skilled barber, is falsely charged and sentenced to a life of hard labor in Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman),

who lusts after Barker’s wife Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly). Now under the assumed name “Sweeney Todd”, Barker returns to London with sailor Anthony Hope (Jamie Campbell Bower).

At his old Fleet Street lodgings above Mrs. Nellie Lovett’s (Helena Bonham Carter) pie shop, he discovers that Lucy, having been raped by Turpin, has poisoned herself,

and his teenage daughter Johanna (Jayne Wisener) is now Turpin’s ward, and like her mother before her, is the object of his unwanted affections. Todd vows revenge,

reopening his barber shop in the upstairs flat.

While roaming London, Todd’s shipmate Anthony spots Johanna and falls in love with her, but is ejected from the Judge’s house by a disapproving Turpin and his associate,

Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall). Far from being discouraged, the sailor becomes determined that the pair will elope. Meanwhile Todd, during a visit to the marketplace,

denounces a fraudulent hair tonic (described as a mixture of “piss and ink” by Todd) by faux-Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), and later humiliates him

in a public shaving contest. Pirelli and his boy assistant Toby (Ed Sanders) visit Todd’s barbershop; Lovett keeps Toby occupied downstairs, while in the parlor Pirelli

reveals himself to be Todd’s former assistant and attempts to blackmail him. To protect the secret of his true identity, Todd murders Pirelli.

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Featurette: Tim Burton and the cast talk about the production design:

Interview Today Show december 5

Johnny Depp in London at press conference of Sweeney Todd