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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Running Time for "Sweeney Todd"?...
The Washington Post has stated that Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will be roughly 160 minutes in length. The running time suggested by the article contrasts with a supposed claim made by Stephen Sondheim that the film was about an hour and forty-five minutes long. But it is not uncommon for film adaptations of staged musicals to be fairly longer than the average movie. If the article is accurate, Sweeney Todd will be Burton's longest film to date. Others, who attended the pre-screening, said it was just under two hours. With so many ideas on the duration of the film, we may have to wait it out to learn how long Burton's next project is for certain...
an hour and 50 minutes for us, and to my utter disappointment an unusually strict rating, that has never happened here, not even with horror movies.
ReplyDeleteToo bad it wasn't 2 and a half hours.
ReplyDeletehaha
I'm glad it has its rating, more freedom to do as they please..
Man, I would think the longer the better, especially with Tim Burton, and especially with Sweeney Todd.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the rating, they would've had to cut a bunch of scenes to make it PG-13. It's gonna be FANTASTIC.