Sweeny Todd Butchered by Tim Burton as Warner Bros Pushes a PG-13 Rating
Filed under: Film News, News | By: Lucy
Posted on: August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments
It seems like Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street isn’t the only one doing a bit of butchery! Warner Bros have asked director Tim Burton to ‘butcher’ his own film, cutting it from an R-rated Movie to a PG-13 MPAA. According to reports, the early footage from the film was so violently bloody that the studio executives have become squeamish and have requested the film to be re-cut.
A report in the Daily Mail has said,
“Tim’s not happy that the studio is asking for so many cuts to the cutting, as it were. The thing is, the studio really likes the film and they want to make it accessible to as big an audience as possible - which means stemming the blood flow. But that’s a bit difficult for a story involving a guy who gets high slitting throats.”
In the Film, unsuspecting victims sit in the mechanical chairs of Todd’s barber shop expecting a short back and sides. Sweeney then slices their throats before opening a trap door and allowing the bodies to travel into the lair of his wife, Mrs Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter). Once his wife has the bodies, she uses them to make her meat pies.
Think twice before booking yourself a haircut!
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ummmm….mrs. lovette is his LOVER his wife is a whole different sort of crazy…watch the film or better yet watch steven sondheims original musical to get the a better slice on this
Why dont they just let Tim Burton make his movie how he wants it! all of his other movies were amazing. Im 17 and I still watch nightmare before christmas. Look at the other movies that poeple have made, they are horrible. They are full of drugs, sex, vilence, rape. The world will understand if a man goes crazy because they took him away from his wife and kid and wants revenge. Look it should be up to Tim to cut his film, not the critics.