Peter Cushing Thing" (1982). Director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp both said the portrayal of Ichabod Crane in "Sleepy Hollow" was intended to resemble that of Cushing's old horror film performances. In 2008, fourteen years after his death, Cushing's image was used in a set of stamps issued by the Royal Mail honouring Hammer Studios films on the fiftieth anniversary of the release of "Dracula". Peter Cushing was dedicated to his wife Helen, to whom he was married for twenty-eight years until her death in 1971. Cushing often said he felt his life had ended when hers did, and he was
Johnny Depp 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.