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A production source writes in to report that Depp would NOT be playing the role of Cortman/main villian in the film. Apparently that character (from Mark Protosevich’s script) has been excised completely. Depp, we now learn, would be playing a fellow survivor that Smith’s character finds named Philip. So no Depp as a crazy vampire/zombie leader? We take back everything we said below. Except the part about rooting against Will Smith. Another tidbit thrown our way about LEGEND talks about the evolution of the creatures in the film. Akiva Goldsman’s rewrite has the monsters unable to "speak at all, and they’re much more primal and unintelligent." Good things? We all know around here that Johnny Depp is a legend. He’s our mascot for chrissake. But could Depp be in LEGEND? I AM LEGEND? Wilson from BlackFilm.com is reporting that Depp has been cast alongside Will Smith in the upcoming adaptation of Richard Matheson’s classic post-apocalyptic vampire movie. Depp would play the villainous head vampire Ben Cortman, who used to be the neighbor of Smith’s character. Johnny Depp as a crazy bad-ass vampire? Ohh man this is almost too good to be true. This might pose a problem though as we’ll have a hard time rooting for Will Smith if he’s battling Johnny Depp. Can they let the bad guy win just once? Frances Lawrence (CONSTANTINE) is directing LEGEND, which is scheduled to begin production this fall. Depp recently pushed back filming on one of his pet projects SHANTARAM after director Peter Weir dropped out due to creative differences. Hopefully we’ll hear confirmation from Warner Bros. soon regarding this juicy little casting nugget.
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"21 Jump Street" creator Stephen Cannell is hoping to lure Johnny Depp back to a screen version of the TV show.
Depp winced when he first heard the idea, but he told journalist Jesse Nash that despite past bitterness with Cannell, he could get into it if he played his character as an aging, washed-up hustler.
"Now that would be interesting," said Depp. "To go back and play the same character that I played 20 years ago with a bunch of people talking behind his back, going, ‘He’s out of his mind. He’s really old now. But he thinks that he’s really young.’ That I would love to do."
But there’s still a chilly air between the actor and Cannell. When Nash told Depp that his former boss spoke highly of him, Depp responded icily: "He didn’t then."
Rush & Molly
This will be hot if it happens, but I doubt it will. You will hear that standard Hollywood line he really wanted to do it, but he had a scheduling conflict.
I saw a movie late one night shortly before 21 Jump Street premiered and I thought the lead actor was so hot! So I started writing his name in my school books, "I love Johnny Deep!" It was not until I saw the 21 Jump Street pilot that I found out his name was Johnny Depp and not Deep! Why teenage girls should not watch Skinemax!
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JOHNNY DEPP wants to put Hollywood on hold so he can live out the dying wish of late movie icon MARLON BRANDO by playing HAMLET in a theatre production. Brando warned THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN star that one his biggest regrets was missing out on the WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE play because he had grown too old by the time he felt ready for the challenging part. Depp says, "Marlon wanted me to escape movies for a while. "So it’s one of the things that keep ricocheting around in my head. He told me that by the time he had got to the point where he felt he could do Hamlet, it was too late. So he said, ‘Do it now, do it while you can.’ "And I would like to do it – although it’s one of the more frightening ideas I’ve had. I think as an actor it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do."
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