Sleepy Hollow (1999)
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- The incredible score for Sleepy Hollow was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Tim Burton originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- During the filming of Sleepy Hollow, Johnny Depp improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton, loosely based on Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, reimagined as a squeamish, science-obsessed New York City constable in 1799 who is sent to the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of decapitations attributed to a ghostly Headless Horseman. Burton's Sleepy Hollow was the director's most visually atmospheric film, a love letter to Hammer horror films rendered in a perpetually gray, fog-drenched landscape of twisted trees, crumbling churches, and blood-red earth. Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography created images of Gothic beauty, and Christopher Walken's brief, terrifying appearance as the Hessian horseman in flashback was effectively menacing.
Rick Heinrichs won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Sleepy Hollow earned $206 million worldwide on a $65 million budget.
