Tim Burton 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
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'"