Partly as punishment and partly to get rid of him, Crane is dispatched to Upper State New York to investigate several beheadings in the village of Sleepy Hollow.īurton’s adaptation seems to be at odds with its own narrative from the start. Crane’s fastidious investigations and doing things by the book puts him at odds with his superiors’ preferred method of rough justice. In this Tim Burton adaptation of Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow, Depp is cast as Ichabod Crane. Instead of portraying Crane as the jittery schoolmaster, Burton recasts him as a New York City constable bent on applying forensic science and “modern” investigative techniques to everyday cases.
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