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+ Out of the smoking ashes of Tim Burton's and Johnny Depp's latest
projects may rise a murderous barber. That's right: Burton's
long-planned adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Sweeney Todd. It all
started to jell when the director's Ripley's Believe It or Not, with Jim
Carrey, stalled over budget and script problems, and Depp's next
movie — the prison-break thriller Shantaram — landed in limbo after director
Peter Weir dropped out. That allowed Burton to turn his attention back
to Todd — which he first reportedly signed on to direct in 1992 — and means
Depp might get to put the skills he honed in '80s bands like Rock City
Angels to good use. But what about Todd's Broadway cast? ''Johnny Depp is
a good guy to lose a job to,'' jokes star Michael Cerveris.
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