Johnny Depp

I found the following tidbit posted at PR-Inside.com:

DUSTIN HOFFMAN has revealed he fought JOHNNY DEPP for the role of WILLY WONKA in director TIM BURTON’s movie adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
The 69-year-old Tootsie star tells America’s USA Today newspaper he desperately wanted to play Wonka in the hit 2005 film.
He says, “I was told that it was Johnny and Tim’s (film) - and that was that.”

Dustin Hoffman is a great actor. I can picture it, but it would have been a very different movie. Somehow I think Hoffman would have stayed closer to Gene Wilder’s performance in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” What do you think?

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Metro.co.uk reports that Johnny Depp was voted sexiest male pin-up by London office workers! Apparently, he fought off stiff competition from other actors, including, George Clooney and Brad Pitt (whose better half, Angelina Jolie, was named sexiest female pin-up).

Those Londong office workers have taste when it comes to knowing who they’d like to see on their walls!

Johnny Depp, Depp, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Metro.co.uk

Dogs Deserve Better, a non-profit organization dedicated to freeing dogs who have been chained or penned for life, is offering the above autographed photo of Johnny at auction on Ebay. Photo was donated by Johnny himself! Click this link to view the auction: Johnny Depp Autographed Photo

The actual photo size is 8×10, and it’s in a wood and metal frame. It’s a great photo, and a great piece of memorabilia if you’re a Depp fan! And, on top of all that, it’s a very worthy cause! So, go over to the auction, take a look, and place your bids!

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The CinemaSource.com currently has three interviews with Johnny Depp available to read. An interview with Stephen Snart takes place during the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

Another interview, with Ray Dademo takes place around the time of release of The Corpse Bride. The third interview, with Rob Alicea was done during the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

There’s lots of great pictures of Johnny there, too, so head on over and enjoy! You can get to each individual interview by clicking on the interviewer’s name above.

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Movie database site IMDb lists four movies under Johnny Depp’s name as being in pre-production. Here are the movies and a synopsis for each:

1. “Shantaram” is the story of an Australian character named Lindsay (Lin). Sentenced to a long, harsh prison term after his personal life spirals out of control, he escapes and makes his way to Bombay (Mumbai). Befriended by a curious character named Prabaker, by a twist of fate Lin ends up living in Prabaker’s slum. Lin immerses himself in the colourful life of Mumbai and his friends from the slum, battling fires, monsoons and ultimately setting up a free medical clinic in an attemtp to make up for past transgressions. Eventually, Khader Khan, a Mumbai mafia chief takes Lin under his wing. In Lin’s mind Khader takes on the role of loving father Lin never had. Their association leads Lin from Love to wretched prison life, freedom to gun running in Afghanistan and to realizations of treachery ultimately his own inner salvation.

2. “The Rum Diary” Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary details the life and events of Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction. Thompson delivers a potent story that pushes the sometimes brutal truth of human relations into your face in such a way that it would be absurd to not laugh

3. “Sin City 2″ The film’s plot follows multiple storyline. One is based around A Dame to Kill For which follows Dwight and his former love Ava Lord, who betrayed him and ended their relationship for a wealthier man. Ava now returns years later claiming her marriage is abusive and insisting that Dwight help her. After she frames him for the murder of her husband, Dwight, with the help of Marv, seeks to clear his name. Dwight’s storyline in this film is a prequel to The Big Fat Kill, which occurred in the first film. It explains how Dwight came to have his “new face” and his connections with the Old Town prostitutes. Dark Horse describes A Dame to Kill For: “It’s one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. Dwight’s thinking of all the ways he’s screwed up and what he’d give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb grey hell that is his life. And he’d give anything. Just to cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time.”[3] Another storyline follows Nancy as she grieves the death of Detective Hartigan, the man she had grown to love after he rescued her from That Yellow Bastard who had kidnapped and attempted to rape then kill Nancy when she was a child

4. “Sin City 3″ On a dark night in Sin City, an ex-Navy SEAL named Wallace saved a young woman, Esther, from killing herself. After a night on the town, she was kidnapped by mysterious people. May God have mercy on those who stand in Wallace’s way…

So far, he’s listed as definite for “The Rum Diary” and “Shantaram,” but only rumored for “Sin City 2 & 3.”
Looks like we might be in for a lot of Johnny in 2008! Here’s hoping!

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Playbill’s current issue has an article on Johnny’s latest collaboration with Tim Burton, the musical “Sweeney Todd.”
Here’s the official synopsis of the film:

“Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller ‘Sweeney Todd.’ Depp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who ’shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again.’ Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney’s amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends Sweeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge’s wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo Pirelli.

Filming is completed, and the film is scheduled for a limited release on December 21, with a wide release on January 11, 2008. Here’s to another great film with Mr. Depp!

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Johnny Depp, placed sixth and was the year’s highest-paid actor with his take of $92 million. Not bad for a pirate.