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12 July 2005 – There’s been tons of speculation floating around about the high-pitched voice and the pale face of Johnny’s portrayal of Willy Wonka a.k.a Michael Jackson. “The weird thing is that actually it never occurred to me,” said Depp, “that there would be any kind of potential connection to Michael Jackson. It never entered my mind.” He added, “It doesn’t bother me, everyone’s entitled to think what they want, even while being violently wrong.”

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Johnny Depp rips through Restoration England with a bottle of wine under one arm, a whore under the other – By Matthew Rose.

In the mid-’90s, John Malkovich approached Depp about starring as the earl in this adaptation of Stephen Jeffreys’s play, after portraying the rake himself at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. “My first reaction was, ‘Why not you?’ ” Depp recalls. ” ‘You’re so good. You should do it.’ And he said, ‘No, no, no, I want you to play it.’ ” Politeness aside, it’s a raunchy role Depp was born to play: Think Jack Sparrow meets the Marquis de Sade.

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The scene at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on July 10, 2005 was colorful with crowds of Deppheads as Hollywood Star Johnny Depp attended the premiere of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Depp, who plays the reclusive Willy Wonka is deliberately disconnected from reality. Vanessa Paradis, Frankie Muniz, Brittany Spears, and Darrel Hannah were also in attendance.

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Johnny Depp said his inspiration for the Wonka character was “part game show host, part children’s show host… locked in a closet for about 10 or 15 years”. But he has denied rumours that he based his performance on Michael Jackson. “It never entered my mind,” he told Sydney’s Herald Sun newspaper, saying the character was more similar to reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.

Tim Burton also directed Depp in Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow “I think Johnny brings a great edge to Willy Wonka,” he said. “He invites kids to the factory and gives them sweets and chocolates, but on the other hand the four of them meet a sticky end.”

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is out in the US on Friday 10 July and the UK on 29 July.

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Keith … yo ho ho and a bottle of rum – By SIMON THOMPSON – Sun Online.

ROLLING Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been signed up to… play dad to Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. “You talk about a dream come true,” said Depp, “you get to be a pirate with Keith Richards, does it get any better than that?”

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Sunday Herald Sun – Johnny Depp has confirmed that he will return to the land down under to Melbourne Australia next summer to make the movie version of Shantaram. The film will be based on the life of Gregory David Roberts, also known as the Gentleman Bandit and Depp will star as the lead.

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contactmusic.com – GILLIAM STUNNED BY LACK OF INTEREST IN DEPP/WILLIAMS FILM

Movie maverick Terry Gilliam is amazed, that a planned movie starring Johnny Depp and Robin Williams is still on the shelf – because American investors cannot raise dollars 15 million (GPB 8.3 million).

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The bbc.co.uk. reports that for the first time Johnny is admitting to being somewhat nervous about taking on the legendary role of Willy Wonka in the children’s beloved classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. “Having grown up in the seventies and eighties, ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ film was an annual event that we would always watch as kids,” said Depp. “I loved Gene Wilder in that film. The memory of his Wonka was ingrained.”

So why did the star decide to take the role? “First and foremost it was that call from Tim,” said Depp, [and] “I’ve been a huge fan of Roald Dahl’s books, especially the character Wonka, that character was so beautiful, so special, so I guess that’s it.”

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Hollywood’s Johnny Depp is being courted to star in a film about a drug addict who turns his life around after living on the streets of Wrexham.

§ Lord of the Rings and King Kong star Andy Serkis has already been signed up to direct the movie.

§ Shooting of Addict, based on the best-selling biography of writer Stephen Smith, is to start this summer.

§ The 61-year-old writer said the film will be all about his life as a young man addicted to amphetamines who drifted into crime and ended up living on the streets of Wrexham for a few months.

§ “It’s a horror story with a fairytale ending – irregardless of how low you go with drink and drugs you can still get out of it,” said Mr Smith, who now lives in Germany with his wife and family.

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FilmStew Staff Report – Thursday, May 19, 2005 – Johnny Depp will once again take on the role of Hunter S. Thompson in an adaptation of the writer’s The Rum Diary.

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Wednesday, May 4, 2005 – Mark Umbach for FilmStem.com – Johnny Depp, Graham King and David Heyman will team up to produce latest adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel; A Long Way Down.

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