Johnny Depp Confirmed For Wally Pfister’s ‘Transcendence’ And Barry Levinson’s ‘Black Mass;’ ‘Pirates 5’ Nowhere In Sight
By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2013 11:20 am EST
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Both films sound different, interesting, and from really talented filmmakers.
Oh, right, Pirates 5. Depp is a machine when it comes to work so, if the script for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is deemed worthy when he finishes Black Mass, there’s certainly a chance it could shoot by the end of the year. One would imagine though, Depp will take some time off after roughly 7 months of straight work. If anything, a shoot in 2014 would certainly still line Pirates 5 up for it’s initial July 10, 2015 release date and provide even more time for the script to be tightened.
Here’s the full press release on Depp’s 2013 schedule:
The film is being financed and produced by Alcon Entertainment’s Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove and will be released by Warner Bros. The film will also be produced by Straight Up Films’ Annie Marter, Marisa Polvino and Kate Cohen along with David Valdes. Pfister will direct from newcomer Jack Paglen’s screenplay, which was developed with Annie Marter, with the most recent draft by Noah Oppenheim. Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are serving as executive producers. Straight Up’s Regency Boies will co-produce.
Johnny Depp is set to star in Transcendence, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister. The film will begin principal photography in April.
Producers are not revealing the film’s plot.
Following Transcendence, Depp will segue into the crime thriller Black Mass, about notorious Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, to be directed by Barry Levinson, with Jez Butterworth writing a new draft of the screenplay by Mark Mallouk, based on the New York Times best-seller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerald O’Neill.
Filming is beginning in early summer of 2013.
The film will be produced by Cross Creek’s Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson along with John Lesher via his Le Grisbi Productions and Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s Exclusive Media, with Cross Creek and Exclusive Media co-financing.
Depp will next be seen starring in Disney’s big screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger directed by Gore Verbinski and debuting July 3, 2013. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Verbinski along with Depp and Christi Dembrowski’s Infinitum Nihil banner. Infinitum Nihil’s credits also includeHugo, Dark Shadows and The Rum Diary.
