Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Rumors of "Sweeney Todd" Cuts Dismissed

Much fuss has been appearing online saying that Warner Bros. wanted Tim Burton to cut some of the more gorey and bloody scenes from Sweeney Todd in order for the film to receive a PG-13 rating by the MPAA. But Variety has stated that these claims are false. "DreamWorks has always said it was an R," says Anne Thompson of Variety. "Anyone who knows the show knows that it involves killing and meat pies."

Mark Salisbury, who is writing the companion book to Sweeney Todd, also dismissed the rumors of Todd receiving a post-production slashing. Salisbury wrote on his blog, "all those reports of Burton being asked to cut back on the blood in the movie, don't believe a word of it."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh i'm so relieved!

Anonymous said...

Thank god. It's scary how willing studios are to widen a films appeal these days, by pushing lower ratings, especially to include the teenybopper audiance. Burton and Depp did so well with the R rated Sleepy Hollow, I've been waaaaaiting for them to release another bloody masterpiece...hopfully it will be Sweeny Todd.

Anonymous said...

OH THANK GOD!

Anonymous said...

I am so excited that it is going to be rated R because i cant wait to see a Tim Burton film with Jhonny Depp doing a boody horror movie! ITS GOING TO BE AWESOME!