POTC filming
Filming has now moved to San Pedro. They will stay in San Pedro for two or three days and then for another week in LA before going to UK.
Jack Sparrow picture by Jerry Bruckheimer
Tim Carr from Jerry Bruckheimer Production contacted me to tell, that Jerry will be posting a very special photo today on Jerry’s twitter, Tuesday morning at about 10am Pacific Time. He thinks, Johnny Depp fans will really enjoy the picture.
Here it is:
Click on it for full view.
Seth Grahame-Smith Scripting ‘Dark Shadows’ As Tim Burton Pic Gets Closer To Start Line With Johnny Depp
By MIKE FLEMING
Deadline.com
Thursday July 15, 2010 @ 11:53am EDT
EXCLUSIVE: Seth Grahame-Smith, who made his Hollywood entry writing novels that put a macabre twist to literary classics and historical figures, has just gotten the high profile job of writing the new draft of Dark Shadows, the Tim Burton-directed adaptation of the 60s daytime serial that will star Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas Collins. The film is slated to begin production in January at Warner Bros. Depp’92s Infinitum Nihil and Graham King’92s GK Films producing.
Warner Bros has been trying for several years to get to the start line on the movie adaptation of the TV series that ran on ABC from 1966-71 and had legions of schoolkids (now adults) racing home from school to be frightened by the moody and atmospheric storyline. Barnabas Collins (played by Jonathan Frid) was the central spooky figure in the groundbreaking supernatural soap. John August was the first writer hired to script the project, based on the Dan Curtis-created characters. Grahame-Smith will be scripting a new take under Burton, and got the job after scripting his own bestselling novel, Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Burton and Timur Bekmambetov bought that project out of their own money as producers, and I hear that Bekmambetov is likely to make the film his next directing effort. The book chronicles Lincoln as he navigates the North through the Civil War, with the added twist that his mother was killed by a supernatural creature.
Rango: A Walk-Through With Gore Verbinski
Empire
Rango: A Walk-Through With Gore Verbinski
Posted on Monday July 5, 2010, 07:50 by Sam Toy in Off The Wire
This time last month, Rango was a project we, like most almost everyone else, had only the most rudimentary knowledge of: an animated film being directed by Gore Verbinski, with Johnny Depp providing key vocal talent. Then, a few weeks back, the teaser trailer landed. Which was, to be honest, unhelpful. You know the one: that shot of a desert road, with a wind up fish (out of water, and in mid-air) slowly making its way from one side of frame to the other, which didn’92t really elicit much more of a response from anyone, beyond ’93Okaaaaaay.’94
Thank your chosen deity then that Paramount chose last week to launch the far more exciting first proper trailer. Now we talkin’92. Why? Because just twenty four hours earlier, we’92d been at the film’92s production offices, being shown all manner of eye-popping artwork, as well as several bits of unfinished-but-still-breathtaking bits of animation, complete with commentary from Verbinski himself; we’92ve now got at least some evidence to support why Rango has rocketed from largely-below-the-radar curio to one of our most anticipated films of 2011. Here are a few reasons why:
Firstly, plot. The trailer goes only a small way to introducing the story, letting you know pretty much solely that Rango (a Hawaiian shirt-wearing chameleon, no less) is a stranger to the desert.
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Exclusive: Rango Trailer Online
The exclusive long awaited Trailer of Rango is now available.
Check it out: here
A 2nd version:
HERE is also a little more about the making of RANGO and Johnny’s character.
First Look at Rango
Today we received our first look at Rango, the main character of an upcoming Gore Verbinski film of the same name, with Johnny playing a chameleon with an identity crisis.
From the article:
Remember when we debuted the announcement teaser a few weeks ago for Gore Verbinski’s new animated movie called Rango and no one knew what the heck was going on in it? Well, now we know, and here he is. Below is your first look at Johnny Depp as Rango, a chameleon who ends up venturing into a western town called Dust. Earlier today I visited Verbinski’s offices in Burbank for a special introduction to Rango. We got to see a few early scenes from the movie and a teaser trailer (which hits tomorrow) and it looks really, really good. Rango is just one of many funky characters you’ll meet in this fun animated western. Check him out!
Rango is being directed by filmmaker Gore Verbinski, of The Mexican, The Ring, The Weather Man, and all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The script was written by John Logan (Gladiator, The Last Samurai, The Aviator, Sweeney Todd) based on a story by Verbinski and James Ward Byrkit. ILM is animating using “cutting edge techniques” that “allow [them] to capture and translate every aspect of Johnny’s performance, using it to drive the computer-generated character in a way that has yet to be seen.” Paramount is bringing Rango to theaters on March 4th,
Rango Official Site Updated/Release Date Changed
The Rango official site has been updated to include a bunch of fallen objects that you can interact with by clicking on them. The scene should also change from night to day periodically.
Rango’s initial release date of March 18, 2011 has been moved up to March 4, 2011.
First Look at The Rum Diary
Stills from the hitherto mysterious “The Rum Diary,” starring Johnny, and produced by Infinitum Nihl, were released today.
Plot summary:
Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.
The movie is speculated to be released sometime next year, but since there has been some trouble finding a distributor, that remains uncertain. Hopefully we can interpret these movie stills has a sign that the film is moving forward!
JOHNNY DEPP: CAPTAIN JACK FLYING HIGH IN HAWAII
Johnny Depp returns to the well known as the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
At the following link you can hear what he has to say about his character: