So.
...
Helena Bonham Carter has been cast as
Mrs. Lovett opposite
Johnny Depp as
Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd.
This movie will be directed by Tim Burton.
The fandom is up in arms. Seriously. These people need to CHILLAX!
Come on.
It's Burton. With Sweeney, I don't think he can go wrong. Johnny completley dissapears into EVERY role he performs and he was fucking creepy in Secret Window where he was a crazy murdering guy and Helena is awesome and is playing Bellatrix, so that alone makes her win at life. I mean, I'm worried about the mainstreamers and what not getting their hands on it, yes, and turning it into RENT where people only know the film and not the actual production and everything, but still. It's Sweeney Fucking Todd. No matter what happens, people are going to hate it, whether it's because it's a musical, subject matter, or because it wasn't
Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone or
Angela Lansbury and George Hearn/Lean Cariou. And because it's going to be "mainstream" now. Um, hate to break it to you, but Musicals are almost never 'mainstream' anymore. The only 'mainstream' musicals are pretty much Sound of Music. I bet you tons of kids are going to go see it because it's Johnny Depp and not have any idea that the second they sit down and the lights go down, that people are going to come on to the screen weilding bloody tools and sing. Because people are that stupid. I mean, there were countless people who went to see RENT without knowing it was a musical, and those who went to Phantom of the OPERA and didn't realize it was a musical. Um...
Opera was in the title. Clearly, people are stupid.
Sondheim won't give the film his blessing until Johnny has proven he has singing skillz up to his expectations. And if he doesn't, oh well, they may throw in
Michael Cerveris to play the role he was nominated for a Tony for (he was also nominated for portraying
John Wilkes Booth in Assassins, and won!).
But, guys. Chill. There were people up in arms about the recent rivival of the show because, well,
Lovett wanted sex and she made sure you knew it,
Patti LuPone played the tuba, Johanna was smart, Sweeney was
HOT, and
Pirelli was played by a woman (who owned you, by the way), and the costumes were out, instead people wore white and black with a little red when they were ded, and THERE WERE ONLY 9 PEOPLE AND THEY ALL PLAYED THEIR OWN INSTURMENTS. And they didn't really have a set. Oh, yeah, and Toby was a little hottie. But that show was KICK ASS (from what I've seen/heard) and won the Tony for best director (in all other categories, it was robbed. Fuckers).
Honestly. People. Go into it with an open mind. I will. Especially because we all know that no one will ever compare to the wonderfulness that was my Lovett.
Oh. Speaking of Pirelli...
Borat, anyone? That's right. Sacha Boren Cohen is in talks to play Pirelli, the first to fall by Sweeney's razor and isn't really Italian at all.
Now, anyways. About that Glob Com...
Never said never or heard the word no,
Shea
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