Johnny Depp will return to directing after a 25-year hiatus
Al Pacino is co-producing Depp's new project, a biopic of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani
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After 25 years, Johnny Depp has plans to make a return behind the camera. The actor is set to direct Modigliani, a biopic about the masterful Italian painter and sculptor. Filming on the project will reportedly begin in Europe in 2023, with casting to be announced imminently.
“The saga of Mr. Modigliani’s life is one that I’m incredibly honored, and truly humbled, to bring to the screen,” said Depp, per The Hollywood Reporter. “It was a life of great hardship, but eventual triumph—a universally human story all viewers can identify with.”
The film, which is based on a play by Dennis McIntyre and adapted for the screen by Jerzy and Mary Kromolowski, marks Depp’s first at the helm since he directed himself and Marlon Brando in 1997's The Brave. Set in Paris in 1916, Modigliani will follow the artist over an influential 48 hour period in his young life.
Depp is producing the film through his IN.2 banner, the European branch of his production company Infinitum Nihil. Al Pacino and Barry Navidi are set to co-produce alongside Depp.
“This project has been very close to Al’s heart. Al introduced me to the play Modigliani many years ago and I instantly fell in love with it,” said Navidi. “This is a slice of Modi’s life and not a bio. It’s been a dream of mine to work with Johnny again–he’s a true artist with an amazing vision to bring this great story to the screen.”
Depp’s newest endeavor comes amid a variety of career moves he’s made since winning his defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp was awarded $10 million in a motion that accused Heard of defaming him in a 2019 Washington Post op-ed where she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Beyond his directorial (re-)debut, Depp has also recently performed potentially ripped-off rockabilly music with Jeff Beck, and signed a seven-figure contract to become the face of Dior’s Sauvage cologne. Depp even nodded not-so-discreetly to the trial by joining TikTok, home to some of his most avid fans, and thanking them for their support in a compilation video. Depp may be grateful for social media’s rallying cry around him, but hopefully his TikTok affirmation doesn’t lay groundwork for the fan-cam-ification of future serious legal proceedings, celebrity or otherwise.
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Ha.
Chuckle.
Guffaw, even…
Why are you promoting this POS?
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/johnny-depp-amber-heard-backfire-1391807/
Because Amber Heard is an abusive sociopath.
You people are all the same.
Yes, sane people do tend to have many things in common when their thought processes are analyzed.
you have a very low capacity for processing things. I can’t imagine seeing the folks on the steps of the court defending Depp and thinking “wow those are sane people”.
The best part of this dipshit ran down his daddy’s leg 12 years ago, but the second best part are the user names of the two people who follow him.
As if you people aren’t.
Ninja Robot Pirate
There’s a difference between “reporting” and “promoting.”I hate to call what the AV Club does “reporting,” but it’s close enough to pass. They’re talking about a project, not giving it a five-star review.
“I hate to call what the AV Club does “reporting,” but it’s close enough to pass.”
It’s not. The AV Club doesn’t report, it literally promotes other websites and articles in every single post that isn’t a review.
blah you know Depp thinks of himself as somehow reflected in Modigilani’s own struggles with substances. As someone in recovery for drugs myself, please remember that Depp’s behaviours are so much more intentional and insidious than simply pointing to his substance issues as the reason for his sad sack act/manipulative public persona.
“I mean, if you’re gonna get wasted, do it elegantly.”
Every picture I see of Depp lately just puts off so much divorced dad energy.
Is that what that’s called?
My headcanon is that all the sadness that should be emanating from Keith Richards is instead being siphoned into Depp. Depp is basically Richards’s portrait of Dorian Grey.
Pacino, eh? His name goes in the book.
Winona Forever!
This isn’t the Black Panther thread!
No writer wants to take credit for this one, eh?
Some news nobody wants credit for reporting when there’s no opinion attached.
The real mystery is why anyone would be willing to put their name on the other Newswires here.
The entire AV Club wrote this, yet couldn’t summon the usual snark displayed by a single writer one of the few times it would actually be justified? Christ.
Yeah, this is weird. I thought their official position was that he was a savage wifebeater
Is … like … do you have the option not to report on this creep? Is this a “well, it’s news, we gotta report it” kinda thing? Is there an indifference to how awful he is? Or is there pro-Depp sentiment?
Please don’t answer. That’s all rhetorical.
What of Mortdecai 2?
Oh no but he’s supposed to be canceled and unable to work anymore