Variety reports that Helen Bonham Carter has signed on to the Sweeney Todd film to star opposite Johnny Depp as the devilish Mrs. Lovett.
Carter is also director Tim Burton's longtime collaborator both on and off screen, having starred in films such as Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, Corpse Bride and Charlie and the Chocolate Factor for Burton. The upcoming film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the relentless demon barber of the title, will begin filming in February of 2007.DreamWorks Studios had announced that filming will take place at London's Pinewood Studios beginning on February 5th. Two members of the creative team have been recently announced--costume designer Colleen Atwood (Oscar-winner for Memoirs of a Geisha) and cinematographer Dante Spinotti (Oscar-nominated for The Insider and L.A. Confidential).
Sweeney Todd, which will be a co-production with Warner Bros., marks the 6th collaboration between the actor and director. The previous Burton-Depp films have been Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow.
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. He is helped by Mrs. Lovett, who bakes Sweeney's victims into "the worst pies in London."
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