Possible Sweeney Todd Movie. . .

http://www.star-ecentral.com/movies/buzz/buzz.asp?file=archives/buzz/2006/1/9DeppandBur&date=1/9/2006

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Patrous : Protecting the board from the dementors of old news one thread at a time.

Yes, I suppose it does come across as particularly Snape-ish.

The one on the main page was even better:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=888523#1948224

Our Patty is a hard-ass

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Every time I think Tim Burton, I think of the story Kevin Smith tells about his run in with Burton. heh

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Oooh, I wanna know the story!

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Okay, if you have seen Planet of the Apes and Jay and Silen Bob Strike Back this will make more sense. In one of the Bluntman and Chronic comic books:

Kevin had Apes take over the world in a dream sequence. Specifically, he showed the Lincoln Memorial with an Ape instead of Lincoln. In Planet of the Apes, Tim used the exact same scene but on film. A reporter called Kevin and asked him to comment on the similarities. Kevin, being the sarcastic ass that we love said: "My jaw hit the ground when I saw that scene," Smith told New York Post movie critic Lou Lumenick. "I think I got robbed and I'm talking with my lawyers about possibly suing." He was obviously joking, but the reporter reported it as serious.

Burton responded by saying something to the effect of, "I would never lower myself to read a Kevin Smith comic." I can't find the direct quote. Kevin made statements all over the plalce that it was taken out of context and that he wasn't suing anyone. It is just hysterical to hear Kevin tell the story. Kevin was also supposed to help write Superman Lives, but was bumped as soon as Tim Burton signed on.

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Updated On: 2/28/06 at 03:17 PM

Kevin also had an interesting story to tell about being hired to write the script for the remake of Superman, which was to star Nicholas Cage. The producer, Jon Peters was Barbara Streisand's hairdresser, who later married Barbara and produced some of her movies. Kevin met with Peters at his house to go over the script with him. Peters then told Kevin the three points that Kevin had to adhere to when writing the script:

1) Superman couldn't wear the Superman suit.

2) Superman couldn't fly.

3) In the third act, Superman should fight with a giant spider.

Kevin was incredulous. When he went back to the Warner Brothers studio, they asked him "is Jon still talking about the giant spider?" He found out that Jon Peters had attended open house at his kid's school and learned that spiders are the fiercest creatures in the animal kingdom.

Tim Burton was hired to direct Superman, and eventually hired his own writers. In the end Superman was never made.

An interesting postscript to this story is that later Kevin went to see the movie Wild Wild West. Jon Peters finally got his giant spider.

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I love the DVD! Although my favorite story from it is far too inappropriate for BWW message boards. And that's even by MY standards

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