Sweeney Todd (2007)

Ah bugger!

No one told me the next Tim Burton movie, 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' was going to be a musical.

Find below the trailer featuring Johnny Depp with a wonderfully dodgy Dick Van Dyke (as the chimney sweep cleaner from 'Mary Poppins') cockney singing voice!

By the way, the release date in the US is this Christmas but doesn't appear in the UK until early 2008.

Spider-Man : The Musical

Bono & The Edge (of U2 fame) are currently working on a musical version of Spider-Man for the stage. It's news to me but apparently this has been on the cards since April.

I like the idea of this and its also a step closer to my plan of turning the Lethal Weapon movies into a musical/opera.

It could really work!