"a member of any tribe. Johnny Depp John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series ""21 Jump Street"", becoming a teen idol. Depp has challenged himself by playing larger-than-life roles, including a supporting role in Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam War film ""Platoon"" and the title character in the 1990 romantic dark fantasy ""Edward Scissorhands"". He later found box office success in the"
"him as a leading Hollywood actor and began his long association with Burton. Producer Scott Rudin has stated that ""basically Johnny Depp is playing Tim Burton in all his movies""; although Burton disapproved of the comment, Depp agrees with it. In his introduction to ""Burton on Burton"", a book of interviews with the director, Depp called Burton ""... a brother, a friend, ... and [a] brave soul"". Depp's first film release in 1990 was John Waters' ""Cry-Baby"", a musical comedy set in the 1950s. Although it was not a box office success upon its initial release, over the years it"
"to work on this and Burton's ""Corpse Bride"" at the same time. ""Corpse Bride"" (2005) was Burton's first full-length stop motion film as a director, featuring the voices of Johnny Depp as Victor and Helena Bonham Carter (for whom the project was specifically created) as Emily in the lead roles. In this film, Burton was able again to use his familiar styles and trademarks, such as the complex interaction between light and darkness, and of being caught between two irreconcilable worlds. ""Bones"" (2006) was the first music video Burton directed. The song ""Bones"" is the sixth overall single by American"
"Rotten Tomatoes, indicating more mixed contemporary reviews. Burton's next film, ""Ed Wood"" (1994), was of a much smaller scale, depicting the life of Ed Wood, a filmmaker sometimes called ""the worst director of all time"". Starring Johnny Depp in the title role, the film is an homage to the low-budget science fiction and horror films of Burton's childhood, and handles its comical protagonist and his motley band of collaborators with surprising fondness and sensitivity. Owing to creative squabbles during the making of ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"", Danny Elfman declined to score ""Ed Wood"", and the assignment went to Howard Shore."
"of Hearts. Tim Burton appeared at the 2009 Comic-Con in San Diego, California, to promote both ""9"" and ""Alice in Wonderland"". When asked about the filmmaking process by an attendee, he mentioned his ""imaginary friend"" who helps him out, prompting Johnny Depp to walk on stage to the applause of the audience. The film won two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. Burton's film ""Dark Shadows"" once again starred Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in leading roles. The film was based on the original ""Dark Shadows"" gothic soap opera, which aired on ABC from 1966"
"as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film ""Finding Neverland"" (2004). The following year he starred as Willy Wonka in ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", which reunited him with director Tim Burton, with whom he had not collaborated since ""Sleepy Hollow"". The film was a box office success and had a positive critical reception, with Depp being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. ""Chocolate Factory"" was followed by another Burton project, stop-motion animation ""Corpse Bride"" (2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Depp reprised the role of"
"Ed Wood (film) Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the eponymous cult filmmaker. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau. Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie, and Bill Murray are among the supporting cast. The film was conceived by writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski when they were students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Irritated at being thought of solely as"
"Fish"" (2003), the musical adventure film ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2005), and the fantasy film ""Alice in Wonderland"" (2010). Burton has often worked with Johnny Depp and Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but three of the films Burton has directed. Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's former domestic partner, has appeared in many of his films. He wrote and illustrated the poetry book ""The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories"", published in 1997 by Faber and Faber and a compilation of his drawings, sketches and other artwork, entitled ""The Art of Tim Burton"", was released in"
"Sleepy Hollow (film) Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a film adaptation loosely based on Washington Irving's 1820 short story ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", and stars Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, with Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, and Jeffrey Jones in supporting roles. The plot follows police constable Ichabod Crane (Depp) sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman. Development began in 1993 at Paramount Pictures, with Kevin Yagher originally set to direct"
"film, Todd McCarthy of ""Variety"" said that ""Depp manages to command center screen with a greatly affable, appealing characterization."" Depp's final 1993 release was Emir Kusturica's surrealist comedy-drama ""Arizona Dream"", which opened to positive reviews. In 1994, Depp reunited with director Tim Burton, playing the title role in ""Ed Wood"", a biographical film about one of history's most inept film directors. Depp later stated that he was at the time depressed about films and filmmaking, but that ""within 10 minutes of hearing about the project, I was committed."" He found that the role gave him a ""chance to stretch out"
"relationship between Todd, Mrs. Lovett, and Toby. DreamWorks announced Burton's appointment in August 2006, and Johnny Depp was cast as Todd. Christopher Lee, Peter Bowles, Anthony Head, and five other actors were set to play the ghost narrators, but their roles were cut (Head does appear in an uncredited cameo as a gentleman who congratulates Depp after the shaving contest). According to Lee, these deletions were due to time constraints caused by a break in filming during March 2007, while Depp's daughter recovered from an illness. Burton's domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter was cast in October 2006, as well as"
"Travers remarked that ""Arquette delivers sensationally"". ""TV Guide"" noted that the film blends and recycles elements from the story of ""Bonnie and Clyde"" and Terrence Malick's ""love on the run"" film ""Badlands"" (1973). It gave ""True Romance"" overall a favourable review for having ""enough energy and verve to create something entirely fresh and infectiously entertaining"". Richard Corliss of ""Time Magazine"" made similar statements and also likened the film to the earlier, seminal ""Bonnie and Clyde."" Arquette next appeared in the television film ""Betrayed by Love"" (1994), and the well-received biopic ""Ed Wood,"" directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp,"
"the critical hits ""Stir of Echoes"" and ""Fight Club"", now considered a cult classic. Walker's adaptation of Washington Irving's short story ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" also wrapped up production as ""Sleepy Hollow"", directed by Tim Burton. While Burton admired Walker's original script, he hired the playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard to tone down the violence. The film, starring Johnny Depp, was still a box office and critical success. Since the mid-1990s, Walker wrote several screenplays that were never greenlit or have yet to go into production, such as a script for a movie starring the superhero Silver"
"""Sweeney Todd"", jointly produced by DreamWorks and Warner Bros., was released on December 21, 2007. Tim Burton directed from a screenplay by John Logan. It stars Johnny Depp as Todd (Depp received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for his performance), Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin, Sacha Baron Cohen as Signor Pirelli, Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope, Laura Michelle Kelly as The Beggar Woman, Jayne Wisener as Johanna, Ed Sanders as Toby, and Timothy Spall as Beadle Bamford. The film was well-received by critics and theatregoers and also won the Golden"
"stating, ""I basically wasted a year. A year is a long time to be working with somebody that you don't really want to be working with."" ""Sleepy Hollow"", released in late 1999, had a supernatural setting and contained another offbeat performance by Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, a detective with an interest in forensic science rather than the schoolteacher of Washington Irving's original tale. With ""Sleepy Hollow"", Burton paid homage to the horror films of the English company Hammer Films. Christopher Lee, one of Hammer's stars, was given a cameo role. A host of Burton regulars appeared in supporting roles"
"Film Festival, held from May 12 to 24, 2010 in Cannes, France. Burton has stated that his favorite films are ""Dracula A.D. 1972"", ""The Wicker Man"", ""The Golden Voyage of Sinbad"", ""The War of the Gargantuas"" and ""The Omega Man"". On May 20, 2017, a Tim Burton-themed bar named Beetle House LA opened in Hollywood, California. Burton regularly casts the same actors in his film projects. Johnny Depp has been in nine of his films, while ex-partner Helena Bonham Carter has been in seven and Christopher Lee in six. From November 22, 2009 to April 26, 2010, Burton had a"
"Corpse Bride Corpse Bride (marketed as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) is a 2005 British-American stop-motion animated musical dark comedy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel. The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp leads the cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily, the titular bride. ""Corpse Bride"" is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, ""The"
"Tim Burton Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, and eccentric horror and fantasy films such as ""Beetlejuice"" (1988), ""Edward Scissorhands"" (1990), ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" (1993), ""Ed Wood"" (1994), ""Sleepy Hollow"" (1999), ""Corpse Bride"" (2005), """" (2007), ""Dark Shadows"" (2012), and ""Frankenweenie"" (2012). He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy ""Pee-wee's Big Adventure"" (1985), the superhero films ""Batman"" (1989) and its first sequel ""Batman Returns"" (1992), the sci-fi film ""Planet of the Apes"" (2001), the fantasy drama ""Big"
"beauty we would've missed out on had [Burton and Depp] never met."" Depp won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the role, and was nominated for the third time for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In director Terry Gilliam's 2009 film ""The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"", Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell each played the character initially portrayed by their friend Heath Ledger, who died before the film was completed. All three actors gave their salaries to Ledger's daughter Matilda. Depp next starred in Michael Mann's 2009 crime film ""Public Enemies"","
"as Mrs. Lovett. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. However, it was not until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when DreamWorks announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes, who had been working on such an adaptation. Sondheim, although not directly involved, was extensively consulted during production. Depp, not known for his singing, took lessons in preparation for his role, which producer Richard D. Zanuck acknowledged was something of a gamble. However, Depp's"
"romance with Katrina. His work went uncredited through the WGA screenwriting credit system. While Johnny Depp was Burton's first choice for the role of Ichabod Crane, Paramount required him to consider Brad Pitt, Liam Neeson and Daniel Day-Lewis. Depp was cast in July 1998 for his third collaboration with Burton. The actor wanted Ichabod to parallel Irving's description of the character in the short story. This included a long prosthetic snipe nose, huge ears, and elongated fingers. Paramount turned down his suggestions, and after Depp read Tom Stoppard's rewrite of the script, he was inspired to take the character even"
"in which he portrayed real-life gangster John Dillinger. The next Depp-Burton collaboration was ""Alice in Wonderland"" (2010), in which he played the Mad Hatter alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway and Alan Rickman. The following year saw the release of the fourth installment in the ""Pirates"" series, """" (2011), which was again a box office success. Depp also voiced the title character, a lizard, in the animated film ""Rango"" (2011). Depp returned to Hunter S. Thompson's work with a film adaptation of the novel ""The Rum Diary"", which also became the first project undertaken by his production company, Infinitum Nihil."
"in a snuff film in exchange for money for his family. Depp was a fan and friend of writer Hunter S. Thompson, and played his alter ego Raoul Duke in ""Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"" (1998), Terry Gilliam's film adaptation of Thompson's pseudobiographical novel of the same name. Depp's next venture with Burton was the period film ""Sleepy Hollow"" (1999), in which he played Ichabod Crane opposite Christina Ricci and Christopher Walken. For his performance, Depp took inspiration from Angela Lansbury, Roddy McDowall and Basil Rathbone. He stated that he ""always thought of Ichabod as a very delicate, fragile"
"week of life and his own personal anguish with his fate. This film currently holds an approval rating of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes and 6.5 on IMDb. The Brave (film) The Brave is a 1997 film adapted from the Gregory McDonald novel of the same title directed by, co-written by and starring Johnny Depp alongside Marlon Brando. This film was Depp's directorial debut. He co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, directed and acted in it. The film was first shown at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival where it received mixed reviews. The film was released in theaters and on DVD"
"I get it'. I just got it too late."" Jim Carrey was also considered for the role, while Thompson favored John Cusack. Elsewhere, William Hurt, Robert Downey Jr. and musician Michael Jackson expressed interest, although Burton neglected to converse with Jackson. Though Burton was unfamiliar with Johnny Depp's then-popular performance in ""21 Jump Street"", he had always been Burton's first choice. At the time of his casting, Depp was wanting to break out of the teen idol status which his performance in ""21 Jump Street"" had afforded him. When he was sent the script, Depp ""wept like a newborn"" and"
"rating of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 63 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's critical consensus states, ""Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fête the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with typically strange and wonderful results."" The film also has a score of 70 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 19 reviews, indicating ""generally favorable reviews"". Roger Ebert gave a largely positive review: ""What Burton has made is a film which celebrates Wood more than it mocks him, and which celebrates, too, the zany spirit of 1950s exploitation films, in"
"""Star Trek"" episodes than any other former regular cast member. He has also directed episodes of ""Charmed"", ""JAG"", ""Las Vegas"", and ""Soul Food: The Series"", as well as the miniseries ""Miracle's Boys"" and the documentary ""The Tiger Woods Story"". He also directed the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie ""Smart House"" starring Katey Sagal, Kevin Kilner and Jessica Steen. His first theatrical film direction was ""Blizzard"" (2003), for which he received a ""Best of Fest"" award from the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and a Genie Award nomination for his work on the film's theme song, ""Center of My Heart"". Burton"
"May 2003, Burton immediately thought of Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka, who joined the following August for his fourth collaboration with the director. Burton and screenwriter John August worked together in creating Wilbur Wonka, Willy's domineering dentist father. ""You want a little bit of the flavor of why Wonka is the way he is,"" Burton reasoned. ""Otherwise, what is he? He's just a weird guy."" Warner Bros. and Burton held differences over the characterization of Willy Wonka. The studio wanted to make Willy Wonka the idyllic father figure Charlie Bucket had longed for his entire life. Burton"
"the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. The storyline concerns Charlie, who takes a tour he has won, led by Wonka, through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world. Development for another adaptation of ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", filmed previously as ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"", began in 1991, 20 years after the first film version, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary"
"do with the soap opera structure of it."" There have been two other feature films based on the soap opera ""Dark Shadows"": Dark Shadows (film) Dark Shadows is a 2012 American horror comedy film based on the gothic television soap opera of the same name. It was directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Bella Heathcote in a dual role. The film had a limited release on May 10, 2012, and was officially released the following day in the United States. The"
"Burton at Starbucks in New York on New Year's Eve in 1992 when she had just quit modeling for Calvin Klein, and Burton had been having difficulty in his four-year marriage. According to a ""Boston Herald"" article, they claimed to have bonded over mutually witnessing two UFO sightings in California. She was engaged to him from Valentine's Day 1993 to 2001 and appeared in small roles in most of his productions made during this time. Burton abruptly ended their relationship following the premiere of 2001's ""Planet of the Apes"", which he directed. Marie had a small role in the film,"
"Tim Burton directed the film, and Johnny Depp, finally realizing one of his childhood fantasies, starred as Barnabas Collins. However, the film treated the stories comedically, and was not the hoped-for major success. Dark Shadows Dark Shadows is an American Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place. The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) appeared ten months into"
"Nicholson as the young Bloom, Burton intended to use a combination of computer-generated imagery and prosthetic makeup. The director then decided to cast around for the two actors in question. Jinks and Cohen, who were then working with Ewan McGregor on ""Down with Love"" (2003), suggested that Burton cast both McGregor and Albert Finney for Edward. Burton later compared McGregor's acting style to regular colleague Johnny Depp. Viewing Finney's performance in ""Tom Jones"" (1963), Burton found him similar to McGregor, and coincidentally found a ""People"" magazine article comparing the two. McGregor, being Scottish, found it easier performing with a Southern"