Hopefully Cindy Lauper let her true colors shine through at her recent audition for Tim Burton’s Sweeny Todd. And I bet that Borat isn’t helping with any negotiations that are going on between Ali G’s Sacha Baron Coen and Burton’s handlers. Few! Ok Nathan over at filmexperience give us this on Lauper:
Breaking Exciting News: Cyndi Lauper let slip on her blog that she recently auditioned for Tim Burton. In her own words “I went in to audition for Tim Burton for a movie which was exciting..,”
This can only mean Sweeney Todd! The Tim Burton adaptation will star Johnny Depp as “the demon barber of Fleet Street” and is scheduled to start filming soon. Jim Broadbent has been widely reported as tapped to play the role of Sweeney’s nemesis, Judge Turpin. As of this writing, to my knowledge no female cast members have been announced. For those unfamiliar with the mindblowing brilliance of Stephen Sondheim’s musical classic, there are three female roles.
And movieweb.com gives us this on Coen:
Sacha Baron Cohen is in negotiations to star opposite Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s film version of the musical Sweeney Todd, according to Production Weekly. The Stephen Sondheim musical thriller revolves around Benjamin Barker alias Sweeney Todd, (Depp) who returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child at the hands of Judge Turpin. When he learns of their terrible fate he joins fortunes with Mrs. Nellie Lovett, the baker downstairs from his barbershop, and sets out to seek revenge. Cohen will play Signor Adolfo Pirelli, Todd’s competitor in the haircutting world.
Cindy Lauper working with Tim Burton? Hell yeah! That is like french fries and gravy my friends. Lauper has a dark sense of humor and her looks are as fantastically surreal as her voice. And the delightfully versatile Sacha Baron Coen as a hair cutting nemesis sounds great!
The fact that this movie already has Johnny Depp is a draw, what makes me even more interested is that Burton have ever been involved in a musical before and Depp hasn’t done one since Cry-Baby
To be honest I think Lauper and Coen would be large assets to this film. She is a name, he is a name (or is fast becoming one). And with Lauper, unlike with many other singers hearing that she is in a movie doesn’t make me want to turn and run the other way, it perks up my curiosity. She has been involved in acting and music (obviously) for a while, just recently she was in the musical The Threepenny Opera with Alan Cummings.
More than anything Coen and Lauper are very interesting characters. Coen is on his show and Cindy is in real life, this is a person who at nine months pregnant dressed up as a belly dancer and went to the Hollywood ball. And we all know how crazy Borat can get. These people would be, besides everything else, great publicity for the film.
I’m hoping Cindy Lauper makes it into this movie. And my fingers are crossed for Sacha as well. What about everyone else?
