Today in London...SWEENEY TODD begins principal photography!- Page 4

[Liverpool]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 7:35pm

Ugh, i so could not care less about this film. I way over Depp and Burton, and as much as I love carter, she's wrong for lovett.

this movie will bomb, and its a shame.

[Muhlethaler]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 8:20pm

Stephen Sondheim, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee, Sacha Baron Cohen, Laura Michelle Kelly, Colleen Atwood, Dante Ferretti... One film.
Heaven.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 10:13pm

I agree...minus Burton. I haven't enjoyed most of his recent films. He's in a funk. I hope doing a musical will break him out of it.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 10:15pm

"this movie will bomb, and its a shame"

Have you gone into the fture and confirmed this?

[singingbackup]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 11:22pm

HIRO..is that you?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 11:41pm

damn, ive let my secret identity out.

[Julian2]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 8:15am

AMAZING Poster. Ten times better wthout the klingon blood.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 9:03am

yay for the random Heroes reference :)

and i think the painter said he painted that logo to be a hit, btw

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 2:33pm

bumping

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 2:41pm

This logo is going to kill the film/ People are going to think its a horror film and be sorely disappointed.

Mark my words

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:03pm

Well, the logo with Sweeney silhouetted, flying in holding an umbrella and a carpet bag was already taken... so they decided to use the razor and blood instead.

Go figure.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:04pm

Im sorry, I love Sweeney, but it's not scary. Never will be. It's highly dramatic, but not frightening.

And horror films fans will only ridicule it. They should market it better.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:05pm

does anyone know if Depp is going to shave his head for this? (i know it's not necessary at ALL but i'm just curious)

[Liverpool]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:06pm

seriously its so NOT HORROR MOVIE MATERIAL. its dramatic and emotional, its not a slasher a musical. Sure, people get slashed, but, burton is gonna turn this thing into a farce if he tries to make it a horror movie.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:20pm

So LMK is playing the Beggar Woman too? SCORE!

[worrell4077]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:20pm

Sweeney's more of a dark, thriller than a straight horror, slasher film. It's not a Friday The 13th or A Nightmare On Elm Street, it's could go more along the lines of maybe Red Dragon or maybe something out of the Hannibal Lecter series, cause those films aren't really horror movies or slasher films, but more of a thriller movie.

I think Sweeney will be fine, Burton is one of the few directors out there who can identify with the characters and really create a great atmosphere for a film. That and he does understand the material and his films are usually dark, and a bit quirky with the humor he uses.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:29pm

sorry, but I dont agree that Sweeney is even close to the scare or thrill level as Red Dragon or any of the Hannibal movies.

This reminds of the thread on ATC about the musical scrubs episode.
Musical theater lends itself to ridicule by its very nature, and its one of the reasons why the show was not scary, and the movie will not be scary.

That having been said, I think its dramatic, even melodramatic and thats the fun part about it. It could even be creepy when done in John Doylesque Marat/Sade version, which I thought was genius.

And if Burton does something like that, then I might be proven wrong. Adding another macabre element where all the characters are mad, that might be good actually.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:31pm

Fenchurch, it might be scarier on film with more realistic special effects.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:44pm

^ That's true.

And for the record, Sweeney has always freaked me out in a way, and done right, I think it could be quite creepy/scary.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 4:04pm

While I think it has the potential to be somewhat creepy, it wont be scary. It's not like Sweeney's going to be jumping out of the darkness to kill people...we're gonna see it coming.

It's not like other movies where the main character is being stalked by some psycho killer who could strike at any moment. Sweeney is that psycho killer, and we root for him.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 4:52pm

Sondheim would be upset that the show didn't frighten you at all, Fenchurch. He has been quoted saying that a major part of why he did Sweeney Todd was because he wanted to truly frighten audiences. The movie's not a slasher film, but there are indeed a few thrills.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 4:52pm

double post.

Updated On: 2/7/07 at 04:52 PM

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 4:57pm

Hey, I love Sondheim, but just because he wanted it, doesn't mean he did it.

Which he didn't. He writes great tunes and even better words, but he's not a god whose intentions suddenly materialize and are perfect.

He misses the mark, a lot, actually. And this is one of those cases.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 5:48pm

It's JUST a logo, folks. It only says how they are planning to promote it in terms of images. We don't know the context yet. We don't know how they are doing the film. Chill. Wait for teaser images.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 7:00pm

Mandi Moo: I think that could be a scary aspect. People probably aren't used to rooting for the psychotic killer, so his being the "hero" might be quite unsettling.