Just months after it was reported that Johnny Depp was not retiring from acting, the actor has set up a new project with a longtime collaborator.
The 60-year-old actor has signed on to play Satan opposite Jeff Bridges as God in director Terry Gilliam’s The Carnival at the End of Days, via Premiere.
Gilliam himself – who directed Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – revealed the news at the Annency International Animated Film Festival in France.
‘We are trying to determine exactly when and where it will happen. Currently, filming is scheduled for January next year. We will see. And I have a pretty good cast: Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges. Adam Driver and Jason Momoa,” Gilliam said.
Gilliam described the film as a “comedy in which God decides to destroy humanity.” And the only one trying to save us is Satan.”
Just months after it was reported that Johnny Depp would not be retiring from acting, the actor has set up a new project with a longtime collaborator
The 60-year-old actor has signed on to play Satan alongside Jeff Bridges as God in director Terry Gilliam’s The Carnival at the End of Days, via Premiere.
Gilliam himself – who directed Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – revealed the news at the Annency International Animated Film Festival in France
The director went on to say that Satan is trying to save humanity: “Because he needs people in hell or he’ll be out of a job forever!”
He added that his cast “needs a woman to complete all that,” though he did not specify who he was considering for the female role.
He said the female would play the “modern” Eve, along with a modern Adam, who presents Satan to God.
The director added Bridges’ version of God “won’t be the God we’re used to,” adding, “In the movie, God is nature.” But a nature that can speak to you.’
“I need animation to bring it to life because in the scene with God there are at least fifteen animals,” he continued.
‘And it becomes complicated, because it has to be realistic. And it gets very expensive. what will happen. But it’s a good scenario. It will be very funny for those who like to be insulted,” Gilliam said with a laugh.
Gilliam directed Depp in 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus from 2009.
Depp also starred in the original version of Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which was chronicled in the 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha.
The director went on to say that Satan is trying to save humanity: “Because he needs people in hell or he’ll be out of a job forever!”
He added that his cast “needs a woman to complete all that,” though he did not specify who he was considering for the female role.
Depp also starred in the original version of Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which was chronicled in the 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha.
Depp returns to the big screen in Jeanne Du Barry, directed by Maiwenn and debuting at Cannes last year.
The film was released theatrically in France last year and also in France on Netflix.
It is unclear if and when the film will be released theatrically in the rest of the world.
He also voices Johnny Puff in the animated film Johnny Puff: Secret Mission.