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Take this with a grain of salt, but AICN is reporting that Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus director Terry Gilliam has cast Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law to film the remaining scenes that Heath Ledger was to have played. If word from Harry Knowles' camp ends up being true, it'll be quite a score for both the project and the notorious bad-luck magnet Gilliam. While it remains to be seen how Heath Ledger's scenes will be integrated into the final product, we can all agree that this casting news is a definite improvement over Christopher Plummer's vision of using "stills and something I think they call CGI" to save the flick. [AICN]
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As a child, Depp was obsessed with Dark Shadows. Warner Brothers pitched the idea of making another film to Johnny, and he accepted. In July 2007 a rights deal was closed with the estate of Dan Curtis, the producer/director who created the soap that aired weekdays on ABC, from 1966 to 1971. Depp and Graham King will produce with David Kennedy, who ran Dan Curtis Productions inc. until Curtis died in 2006 of a brain tumor. Infinitum-Nihil's Christi Dembrowski served as the point person on the deal.
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[A]pparently Sin City 3 will star Johnny Depp. This is, in short, an outrage, and probably the most controversial and wrong-headed decision since the Japanese were interred in World War II. Depp would be playing a “hallucinating artist” in a story based on creator/director Frank Miller’s Hell & Back.
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Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball) said Depp was the perfect choice for the role because, as much as any modern leading actor, he's kept his own childlike spirit vibrantly alive. "Johnny is perfect to represent a man who never wants to grow up, because you can see that he has this very accessible child inside him from the choices of movie roles he makes," Forster said.
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