Never Forget. Never Forgive.

Director: Tim Burton
Producers: Richard D Zanuck, John Logan & Walter F Parkes
Writer: John Logan (screenplay) & Stephen Sondheim (musical)
Music: Stephen Sondheim
Release Date: Jan 31, 2008 (Hong Kong)
Running Time:  116 mins.
Budget:  US$50 million

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

After 15 years in exile (in Australia) for a crime he didn't commit, Benjamin Barker now Sweeney Todd, returns to London to find his wife poisoned herself and his daughter in the hands of the evil Judge Turpin. In his anger, Sweeney goes on a murderous rampage on all London, with the help of Mrs. Lovett, he opens a barber shop in which he lures his victims in with a charming smile before casually ending their life with a flick of his razor across their neck. But not one man killed, nor ten thousands men can satisfy Sweeney's lust for revenge on those who've caused his years of pain.

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street trailer

The one and only -  Johnny Depp...  I like Johnny Depp since Sleepy Hollow.  And then I started watching his movies, including those before Sleepy Hollow.  He has got this silence charm and one would simply fall for him.  This movie is an excellent movie.  I read a lot of information and details about the making of this film.  Johnny Depp first learned of Sweeney Todd in 2000, when he was given an original cast recording of the musical by Burton. Depp was not a fan of the musical genre, but liked the musical. Depp asked rhetorically when he signed on, "How many chances do you get at a musical about a serial killer?" Depp recorded demo tapes of himself in West Hollywood, working with an old friend and music producer Bruce Witkin to shape his own vocals without a voice coach.  Depp said, "We focused on the dangerous and unsettling idea of stillness, that he doesn’t look many people in the eye, or say much", an idea Burton compared to Boris Karloff and other actors in classic horror films, where "his eyes and the music tell the story."

Cast

Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd	Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs Lovett	Alan Rickman as HJudge Turpin	Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope
Jayne Wisener as Johanna	Sacha Baron Cohen as Signor Adolfo Pirelli	Timothy Spall as Beadle Bamford	Ed Sanders as Toby