Johnny Depp has signed on for three new movies, the first he is set to play Tonto in an upcoming big screen version of The Lone Ranger which comes from Pirates Of To Caribbean producer, Jerry Bruckheimer.
Depp has also signed on to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice In Wonderland movie.
But the most exciting news for Depp fans is that he will be reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth installment to the Pirates franchise, which one again will have Bruckheimer.
A couple of weeks ago, Depp’s co-star in the Pirate’s franchise, Keira Knightley, said she would not do a fourth movie.
Here is the just released poster for Angelina Jolie’s movie, Changeling.
Changeling which is directed by Clint Eastwood is set in the 1920’s and is about Christine Collins (Jolie) who’s son is returned to her after being kidnapped, she soon comes to suspect that the child is not her own. After being vilified as an unfit mother, Christine must confront the city authorities and corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department in order to find out the truth.
MTV reports that Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, and Matthew McConaughey are set to star together in an upcoming new heist adventure movie.
The actor himself tells MTV about the movie although he doesn’t go into detail, he says “I’ll probably do a film with Scarlett Johansson. I forget what it’s called. It’s an adventure film. I was told yesterday that they have Matthew McConaughey as the guy. I’ve got go home and read it again. It’s a heist adventure film.”
However it seems Caine may not be the most reliable source, a couple of weeks ago he himself started rumors that both Johnny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman will be in the next Batman movie, both which MTV revealed were false.
Keira Knightley is reportedly in talks to star in yet another period piece, this time for a movie that is based on the love story of Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The movie which is titled The Beautiful and the Damned will be directed by Nick Cassavettes (The Notebook) and written by Hanna Weg.
Sayre and Fitzgerald became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony
Pirates Of The Caribbean co-stars Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom might be reuniting on the big screen.
What movie would they be doing together? Apparently the pair are to star in a remake of Saturday Night Fever, the 1977 which saw John Travolta strutting his stuff in the disco classic.
The film execs want to change the location of the movie from Brooklyn, New York to a small village called Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, England.
The title of the movie is rumored to be called “The Fever Returns”, at least it isn’t a period piece right?
Ben Affleck is set to direct, rewrite and star in Warner Bro movie titled The Town according to Variety.
The movie which is based on the Chuch Hogan novel, The Prince Of Thieves, is about a thief (Affleck) who falls in love with a bank manager. Affleck takes over from Hogan and Peter Craig, who both wrote the most recent draft.
The movie is set to film in Charlestown, Massachusetts
