Anthony "Giles" Head in Sweeney Todd film???

[jpbran]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 1:11pm

Hmmm.... According to the about 90% reliable IMDB.com, Anthony Head ("Giles" from Buffy) is now listed in the cast list for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd adaptation.

I know he can sing (definitely the standout from the BTVS musical episode), but I wonder who he'll play? The Beadle? The asylum proprieter?

SPOLIER- Also, they've updated the listing to have Laura Michelle Kelly now listed officially as the Begger Woman. But, they also list her as Lucy Barker, which seems like kind of a spoiler to those who don't know the story's twists.

Posted: 1/10/07 at 1:16pm

I saw Anthony in Chess years ago in London as Freddie and he was terrific.

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 1:21pm

They can make the two characters appear completely different, since one is supposed to be a ragged beggar woman anyway.

[jpbran]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 1:26pm

I know, but a LOT of people read the IMDB (one of the more popular entertainment sites supposedly) and it kinda spells it out right there....

It'd be like them listing Kevin Spacey as playing both Verbal AND Keyser Soze (sp?) in the Usual Suspects...

Not as earth-shattering, I know, but still...

[Miranda2]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 2:10pm

I dont know if this has been talked about anywhere else but do you know if the movie is going to be a musical? i heard somewhere that is was NOT going to be, but i dont know if it was true or not.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 2:37pm

Straight from his website:

Anthony will be appearing in the movie musical adaptation of 'Sweeney Todd'. The movie is directed by Tim Burton and filming began in December 2006. The film tells the infamous story of Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.

We are not able to release information about Anthony's character at the present time.

Guess it's a somewhat substantial role if they're unable to drop it right now. Seems to imply the ink on the contract's not dry yet.

[mrkringas]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 2:38pm

My cousin saw him as Freddie too and raves about his performance. I believe David Burt was playing Anatoly with Kathryn Evans as Florence? Sounds like a terrific cast!

Posted: 1/10/07 at 3:05pm

I'll have to look to see who palyed Anatoly. I do know that Grianne Rhenihan (I am completely butchering her spelling) and Siobhan McCarthy were Florence and Svetlana ( but I can't remember which was which) I did see the original cast as well and the replacements were ALL terrific.

[jasonf]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 6:20pm

Other than the Beadle, Anthony, and Toby, what major roles haven't been cast? No way is he playing Toby or Anthony (too old) -- therefore...

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 6:26pm

I am almoust positive that the Beadle has been cast and it is Jim Broadbent. Also Christopher Lee is Jonas Fogg...

That leaves Toby and Anthony and I have heard that Toby is going to be a little boy (possibly Freddie Highmore from the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Finding Neverland)

[sicetergo]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 6:33pm

I wonder if Anthony Head could be something like the Chorus or Narrator..."Attend the tale..." just a thought, and I have no information upon which to base it - except that Stephen Sondheim mentioned that John Logan had developed a new concept in terms of telling the story.
Updated On: 1/11/07 at 06:33 PM

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 9:06pm

As I said when this was first mentioned as a possibility...of course I'd want him to have as big a part as possible, but I just think he's great he's in this film, no matter the part. I love him, and he sings very well

[worrell4077]

Posted: 1/11/07 at 1:34pm

"I am almoust positive that the Beadle has been cast and it is Jim Broadbent. Also Christopher Lee is Jonas Fogg..."

I haven't heard anything else about the Sweeney cast since they announced Johanna. The only thing I heard about Broadbent was that he was rumored to be in the movie. Where did you hear about Christopher Lee as Jonas Fogg?

You know in all honesty, I think that Anthony Head should be Fogg cause he kinda looks like he'd be the head of an insane asylum or a doctor in an asylum. That's what my initial thought was when I heard he'd been cast in the film.

[sicetergo]

Posted: 1/11/07 at 2:52pm

Christopher Lee was announced on the Tim Burton website as Fogg and Jim Broadbent as the Beadle.

[Oliver Brownlow]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 11:35pm

Christopher Lee is in the film? Yay!!! I wanted him for the Judge (he's a huge man and an operatic bass and would have been perfect, I think), but since he didn't get that role, I'm so glad he's going to be in the film anyway. He's the last surviving classic horror actor in a tradition that reaches from Max Schreck and Lon Chaney Sr. to Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Lorre, and England's Tod Slaughter (who starred in the 1936 British non-musical film version of SWEENEY TODD) to Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and of course, Lee himself. It would have been a terrible loss for him not to have been included at all in the cast of this important movie that will certainly be in part a modern take on that classic horror tradition. And it's the first thing I've heard about this film that really excites me.

[kec]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 1:26pm

"Christopher Lee was announced on the Tim Burton website as Fogg and Jim Broadbent as the Beadle."

According to the Sondheim Society website, Timothy Spall is playing the Beadle. No mention is made of Christopher Lee being part of the cast -- at least not per the article at the link below. The same article says that although there are persistent rumors about Anthony Stewart Head being part of the cast, no role has been confirmed.





Sondheim Society News

[sicetergo]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 1:42pm

Quite right, looks as tho' Timothy Spall has been announced. So it looks like the Tim Burton Collective is not such a reliable source Good to see that Sam Kenyon, who played, Tobias, in Doyle's Sweeney in London has been cast in the ensemble.

[Weez]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 3:46pm

Wait, so the Tim Burton website people have been quoting as proof Christopher Lee's been cast is a fansite? Man oh man. I have little else to say about that. O_O

Anthony Head is a little more than a mere rumour at least, given that he's actually posted on his own website that he's going to be involved even if he can't say anymore at this point. http://www.anthonyhead.org/news.html#Q1 ^_^

[Jwaa]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:12pm

:O Anthony Head's daughter is a classmate of mine and a good friend....im definately going to check this out!!
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[Weez]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:20pm

Wow, does this mean we live in the same sort of region? Mr. Head has been known to come into the shop where I work on occasion (last time I served him, he was looking for a vampire novel, which made me chuckle a little), and I've been instructing my co-workers to interrogate him mercilessly if he comes in. Your way might be better though. XD

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 6:25pm

thank god Christopher Lee is going to be in this.

[kec]

Posted: 1/21/07 at 3:23am

"thank god Christopher Lee is going to be in this. "

Do you have a source of information for this? The Sondheim Society article I've linked above did not include him in the cast list they have thus far.