Sleepy Hollow (film) 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
Johnny Depp situation...[because] that could have been fatal.'" In 2016, then-wife Amber Heard claimed that Depp "'plunged into the depths of paranoia and violence after bingeing on drugs and alcohol,'" although a joint statement issued by Heard and Depp in connection with their divorce denied that either party intended "'physical or emotional harm'" to the other. In 2018, reporter Stephen Rodrick of "Rolling Stone" wrote that Depp had used hashish in his presence and described Depp as "alternately hilarious, sly and incoherent"; Rodrick also quoted Depp as stating that a claim that he had spent US$30,000 per month on wine was "'insulting'"