In what might be the strangest casting I’ve ever heard, Production Weekly are reporting that actor Sacha Baron Cohen is in talks to star alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s dark musical Sweeney Todd. Cohen is of course famous for his outrageous characters Ali G and most recently Borat who have now both had their own feature length movie.
Cohen is in talks for the role of barber Signor Adolfo Pirelli, a competitor of Depp’s Sweeney Todd.
Production is set to begin in February at Burton’s favourite Pinewood Stuidos with a release date set for around Christmas 2007.
source – production weekly, coming soon
