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 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.