While it remains the more iconic of adaptations, writer/director Lindsey Anderson Beer reveals her goals to differentiate her Sleepy Hollow reboot from Tim Burton's Oscar-winning movie. Loosely based on Washington Irving's iconic short story, Burton's 1999 project starred Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane as he ventured to the eponymous New York village in order to investigate a series of murders carried out by the mysterious Headless Horseman. The third major adaptation of Irving's story after the 1922 silent movie The Headless Horseman and animated Disney title The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Burton's went on to earn largely positive reviews and was a box office smash.
