Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker

[Theatreboy49]

Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#1

Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:08pm

How about it? I think it would be amazing. Get helena to be the bakers wife and bring in a name to play the witch to sell tickets? What do you all think?

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[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#2

Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:10pm

Depp would not work at all as the Baker.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[B3TA07]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#2

Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:12pm

A Burton "ITW" would be delightful...but Depp is wrong for the Baker.

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[thevolleyballer]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#3

Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:14pm

Considering Helena's appearance onscreen lately, she'd be much more in her element playing Milky White.

[zooxanthellae]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#4

Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:15pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=950801#3364356

[adamgreer]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#5

Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:23pm

Depp as the Baker would not work. The only role I could see him potentially playing is the Wolf.

However, Burton directing the piece is a great idea.

[Rentaholic2]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#6

Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:24pm

Can you PLEASE title your treads something like, "Should Burton direct Into the Woods?" or at least something with a question mark! When you say, "Burton to direct Into the Woods," you appear to be stating a fact, and it is very misleading.

[Theatreboy49]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#7

Posted: 12/28/07 at 11:24pm

oops i didnt search i guess. didnt reilize there was a thread already

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado

[BrianIdol]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#8

Posted: 12/29/07 at 12:48am

i like the baker to be a bit more mousy than Depp, but Helena as the wife MIGHT work.

[zooxanthellae]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#9

Posted: 12/29/07 at 12:50am

Well the casting really depends on how Burton would direct it... but I agree, conventionally Depp wouldn't work, but perhaps that was said about him playing Sweeney... so who knows?

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#11

Posted: 12/29/07 at 1:42am

Yes! No more Depp! Please!!!

[actormcfamous]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#12

Posted: 12/29/07 at 2:49am

IMHO, Tim Burton needs to be kept as far away from Sondheim material as possible.

[FutureAladdinOnB'Way]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#13

Posted: 12/29/07 at 2:55am

I don't think Tim should do Into The Woods; granted he is my favorite director, but he did Sweeney Todd because he saw the original production and begged Mr.Sondheim for permission to do it because he loved it so much. Into The Woods just doesn't have the gothic feel that most of Mr. Burton's films do; but who knows...

Edit: Now that I think about it, I do think it would make a nice claymation movie. Updated On: 12/29/07 at 02:55 AM

[MerMaggieGalinda]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#14

Posted: 12/29/07 at 3:30am

I think Tim would actually be a really good fit for Into the Woods. If he does end up doing it, please cast more trained singers please?

[Matters]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#15

Posted: 12/29/07 at 3:49am

well Burton loves his movies to have creepy fantasy trees so that alone makes it fitting. In regard to casting, i personally think the baker & wife should be unknowns in their early 20s....but thats my own interpertation of those two that not many people seem to agree with. I'd put Depp in as the narrator/mysterious man, Helena would be interstng as jack's mom. but she'd probably get cast as the witch.

Canadians are not afraid of the dark! Ok...we don't love it, but who does?

[best12bars]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#16

Posted: 12/29/07 at 8:28am

Are you kidding?

After seeing Sweeney... If Burton directed, nobody in the film would actually sing "Into the Woods," because it's a chorus number.

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[Unknown User]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#17

Posted: 12/29/07 at 9:04am

you need to change the title of this thread.

[jpbran]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#18

Posted: 12/29/07 at 11:33am

Agreed-- make the post title a question. I got very excited/curious when I saw what looked like an announcement.

[husk_charmer]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#19

Posted: 12/29/07 at 11:50am

I think Into the Woods, done in the stop-motion style ala Nightmare would be BRILLIANT.

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[Brave Sir Robin2]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#20

Posted: 12/29/07 at 11:59am

No Depp or Carter! But if Tim did this, it could be very good.

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

[ljay889]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#21

Posted: 12/29/07 at 12:17pm

Depp wouldn't fit in this. But Carter would actually be an option for the two lead female roles. I don't even think her singing would be a problem. The Baker's Wife does not need an amazing voice.

[Unknown User]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#22

Posted: 12/29/07 at 1:57pm

I say we just get Max and Laura to play the Baker and his wife. lol... I think I just threw up a little.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#23

Posted: 12/29/07 at 2:08pm

Barker would be deliciously funny as the Witch. I would prefer someone like Toni Collette for the Baker's Wife. With Antonio Banderas as the Baker.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[DickonDefysGravity]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#24

Posted: 12/29/07 at 2:13pm

I almost had an epileptic in horror.
Johnny Depp would be an awful baker.
Tim Burton would be a horrible director for Into the Woods.
Leave Into the Woods alone. Its a masterpiece that doesn't need ruining like Sweeney Todd was.

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Burton to direct Into the Woods with Depp as baker#25

Posted: 12/29/07 at 2:44pm

Except Sweeney Todd was far from ruined.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.