Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Demanding Historical Coherency From Musicals

Come on, folks, it's fantasy!:
Publicists for Johnny Depp's film must be crying into their beer at their big boob.

In a poster for his new movie Johnny Depp sits by an attic skylight, with the Big Ben clock tower visible through the glass.

Unfortunately the film, about Sweeney Todd, is set in the early 19th century - 50 years before the famous tower was built.

Now the ad campaign has been scrapped and a new poster is being produced to publicise next month's release of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.

Tim Burton's film is based on Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical and also stars Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen.

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