Tim Burton "answers' a Sweeney question

[jsand25]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 3:24pm

This is from ew.

Interviewer- Anything you can share with us about your version of Sweeney Todd [in which Johnny Depp will star as the demon barber of Fleet Street]?

Burton- No. Because, you know, once I decide, being a mere puny human, there's a whole alien intelligence out there that knows so much more than I.

I- That is not true.
B- [Laughs] Unfortunately, it is.

I- The people I would be worried about if I was doing Sweeney Todd would be the Sondheim freaks.

B- Yeah, but he's been real cool and open about the whole thing. He's a real artist. He gets it. He gets the fact that it's a movie and — you know, it's exciting. I don't know. We haven't really started, so it's hard to describe how it's gonna be.

I- There will or there will not be singing?

B-Oh, yeah, there will be. There will be blood, and music... and pies. For everyone.

I- Do you foresee a time when you and Johnny Depp will be sick to death of each other?

B-[Laughs] No. I've been through enough with him, and he's pretty open to things, and that's the exciting thing about working with him.

I- I guess the good thing about him is you don't so much have to pick projects with him in mind as much as just know that he can be whatever you need.

B- I think when we work together we try to do it when it feels new or feels right, and hopefully those projects will always be there somewhere.

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1548532_1_0_,00.html

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 3:28pm

"This is from ew."

At first glance, I thought you were expressing your disdain.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 3:31pm

Well, blood is good.

[TheMecca]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 3:33pm

Well, that didn't answer anything.
Amusing though.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 4:13pm

Who had the avatar with the Corpse Bride, but had that scratched out and Sweeney Todd written in?

That was pure genius.