(Left to right:) Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam in 2023.Photo:Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty, Ian West/PA Images via Getty
Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty, Ian West/PA Images via Getty
Johnny Deppmay be adding Satan to his résumé of surprising roles.
FilmmakerTerry Gilliam, who has directed Depp in 1998’sFear and Loathing in Las Vegasand 2009’sThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, said he’s eyeing the actor for a devilish role in his new movie,Carnival at the End of Days.
In aVarietyinterviewconducted Sunday at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, theMonty Pythonstar teased a summary of its plot: “God wipes out humanity and the only character who wants to save them is Satan, and Johnny Depp plays Satan.”
Gilliam, 83, added that his God character’s motivation for bringing about the demise of mankind is “for f—ing up his beautiful garden Earth.” Meanwhile, Satan resolves to stop the destruction “because without humanity he’s lost his job and he’s an eternal character and so to live without a job is terrible.”
The British writer-director continued: “So he finds some young people and he tries to convince God that these young people are the new Adam and Eve. God still gets to wipe out humanity.”
To clarify the movie’s tone, he added, “It’s a comedy.”
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Johnny Depp as Louis XV in “Jeanne du Barry”.Le Pacte / courtesy Everett Collection
Le Pacte / courtesy Everett Collection
Of 2002’sLost in La Mancha, the documentary made about Gilliam’s failure to complete hisDon Quixoteadaptation that was meant to star Depp, the filmmaker jokingly pointed out toVarietythat its credits listed his name above Depp’s: “I have to keep him in his place.”
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which was finally released in 2018, starredAdam Driverand longtime Gilliam collaboratorJonathan Pryce. It’s the last screen credit from the Monty Python alum, who was nominated for a screenplay Oscar in 1986 forBrazil.
Johnny Depp in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.
Depp, who this year starred in the French-language Cannes Film Festival premiereJeanne Du Barry, also spoke at the recent Red Sea Film Festival. “I think the majority of audiences are really bored [with Hollywood],” he toldThe National.“These three-act structural kind of [things], people are sick of it. I think it shows pretty well in what’s happening in Hollywood today.”
Jeanne Du Barrymarked Depp’s first film after his defamation trial with ex-wifeAmber Heard, which ended in June 2022.
ThePirates of the Caribbeanstar will next feature in animated movieJohnny Puff: Secret Mission, due next year.
source: people.com
