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2007 film by Tim Burton

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 gothicmusicalslasher film^[7] directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by John Logan, based on the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, which in turn is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond.

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The film retells the melodramatic Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp), an English barber and serial killer. After arriving in London, Todd begins seeking revenge on Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) who wrongfully convicted and exiled him in order to steal his wife.

Sweeney Todd commits serial murders on his customers and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), processes their corpses into meat pies.

Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of the stage musical while a college student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s.

However, it was not until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when

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