According to Variety, Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, Big Fish) has been cast in the role of the diabolical meat pie maker Mrs. Lovett in the upcoming adaptation of the musical Sweeney Todd, which will be directed by her husband Tim Burton and starts shooting in early next year.
Carter will star alongside Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G, Borat), although the involvement of the latter is at this point still subject to confirmation by Dream Works or Warner.
Mrs. Lovett, a role originated onstage by Angela Lansbury, is a murderess who dispenses her victims’ bodies in meat pies and becomes the amorous accomplice of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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