Johnny Depp has found his next role. The American actor will play the devil himself in Carnival at the end of days, a film being prepared by British director Terry Gilliam. The director said this to Première during the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
“We are trying to determine exactly when and where filming will take place, which is scheduled for next January,” he said. “And I have a pretty good cast: Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Adam Driver and Jason Momoa.”
The filmmaker details the speech of the feature film to the monthly: “(It is a) comedy where God decides to destroy humanity. And the only one who tries to save us is Satan. Because he needs people in hell, otherwise he will not have a job for eternity. ” He specifies that Jeff Bridges will play the role of God.
“The new Adam and Eve”
Terry Gilliam had already mentioned this project last December to Variety, as well as his desire to entrust the role of the devil to the actor fromEdward Scissorhands. At the time, the project was in the early stages of development. The filmmaker was already talking about a film where Satan would try to save humanity, threatened by God: “Find young people and try to convince God that they are the new Adam and Eve,” he said then.
Terry Gilliam once directed Johnny Depp in his films. Las Vegas Paranoid (1998) and The imaginary of doctor Parnassus (2009). They also worked together on the film. The man who killed Don QuixoteTerry Gilliam’s project was aborted in the early 2000s. The film finally saw the light of day in 2018, without Johnny Depp in the cast.
resounding judgment
As Sky News reminds us, this will be Johnny Depp’s second film role since the notorious trial that pitted him against his ex-wife Amber Heard in 2022, after Joan of Barry from Maïwenn in 2023.
Johnny Depp had attacked Amber Heard for defamation by demanding $50 million for an article published in the Washington Post in 2018, in which Amber Heard described herself as “a public figure who represents domestic violence,” without naming her ex-husband. the actress ofAquaman He had counterattacked by demanding double.
At the end of six weeks of debate, jurors at the Fairfax courthouse, outside Washington, concluded that the former spouses had defamed each other. Amber Heard had been They order to pay 10.35 million dollars to Johnny Depp, and Johnny Depp was ordered to pay his ex-wife $2 million. This affair had turned the former Hollywood star into an undesirable person in the world of cinema.
Source: BFM TV
