By: MrDisgusting

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Alan Rickman has finally officially signed on for Tim Burton's ensemble musical Sweeney Todd, a DreamWorks Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures co-production, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen already have boarded the project, based on the macabre Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical. Rickman, no stranger to the stage, has been nominated for two Tonys and is a U.K. theater veteran. He will play Judge Turpin in the film, scheduled to begin production next month in London. The film centers on Benjamin Barker (Depp), a man unjustly imprisoned by a lecherous judge (Rickman). Barker returns as barber Sweeney Todd and exacts revenge. John Logan penned the big-screen adaptation. Rickman, whose credits include "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" and the "Harry Potter" films, recently wrapped "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Scott 12:51am, March 28, 2007 awesome. cant wait

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