Despised by his superiors (one of whom is an aged Christopher Lee, late of pretty much every Hammer horror film ever made) for his newfangled, Sherlock Holmesian, rationalist ideas about law and order and the rights of the accused, Crane is sent to the fog-bound upstate hamlet of Sleepy Hollow to discover the identity of a mysterious killer who has a penchant for lopping off and absconding with his victim's noggins: the headless horseman, I presume. Most noticeable is the transformation of Ichabod Crane (Depp, taking his cues from Jeffrey Combs in Re-Animator, I think) from recalcitrant New England schoolmarm to New York City police constable.
That's due in no small part to the fact that this version of the story owes less to Irving's original tale than to screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker (Seven) and co-scenarist/special effects guru/co-producer Kevin Yagher's twisty new take on the tale, which includes a host of new additions to the Irving's bare-bones storyline. You'll notice Washington Irving's name is absent from the title of Burton's new film.
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