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dropped / rumoured
On this site you find a list of those movies Johnny was rumoured to play in
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Johnny is also a great musician, and he loves the music. Here is a list of all his musical works - Artwork
Art came to Johnny before music and film. All of his artwork campaigns - Infinitum Nihil & IN.2
Johnny Depp’s movie production company
Vanity Fair, August 2009 – Mad About the Hatter
Title: Mad About the Hatter
Author: Evgenia Peretz
Publication: Vanity Fair
Issue: August 2009
After the huge success of Batman {I989], Tim Burton might have gone the route of Hollywood action director, churning through every iconic American superhero. Instead, he has spent the last 20 years on his own candy-colored, cobweb-by path, inventing heartbreakingly peculiar heroes [Edward Scissorhands] and giving a macabre edge to children’s classics [Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]. It would seem inevitable that one day he’d take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, last seen on film in the bland animated Disney version of 1951. Fifty-eight years later, the Cheshire Cat and the Red Queen were begging to be reimagined by the living master of cheeky Goth.
It’s inevitable, also, that it would star, as the Mad Hatter, Johnny Depp, whose real-life passion for haberdashery could hardly be better documented. Now on their seventh collaboration, Depp and Burton both grew up as suburban outcasts and admit to speaking a language on set that no one else understands. The film also stars Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Burton’s partner, Helena Bonham Carter, as the Red Queen, Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts, and Mia Wasikowska {In Treatment Defiance} as Alice. The director has employed “’performance capture” technology and 3D—two more reasons it seems destined to be of a rare breed;
Serious Acting
When Edward was wrapped Johnny began on a strange part of his life. He did a short cameo on the new Freddy’s Dead as a thank you for the start in his career . Immediately after this Winona and Johnny’s relationship ended and it ended publicly, which made it harder for Johnny. The press was very unkind and as usual, a lot of news was sread that was totally untrue. Johnny said about this time following in his life, “It was a really lonely time for me, I did feel very lost at times and confused about everything. I poisoned my self by drinking, smoking, I didn’t eat right, no sleep, lots of cigarettes?..I did feel very lost at times, confused about everything.” Another important quote of Johnny’s from that time, addresses his loneliness, ” Being lonely is scary, I’ve been lonely many times.” In the midst of his personal life problems, Johnny began to go back to work and wanted to show his ability and versatility by choosing a role that he felt could become a part of him.
Johnny decided to take his next role all the way on the other side of the fence, with the film, “Arizona Dream.” Which he chose because of his fondness for another director, Emir Kusturica.
The film was put on hold for a couple of months and Johnny went back to his music roots by making a guest appearance on Tom Patty’s music video, “The Great Wide Open,”
Early Film Career
Johnny had taken to blowing off steam on the set and also in real life as he has said that “it wasn’t really rebellion, it was just feeling uncomfortable in my own skin and not really knowing where my place in life was” However he was labeled as the rebel and to those not acquainted with him, viewed on as the same. He has admitted to his down fall in his understanding of life as he said in one interview (rolling stone 2008. ) “I was a dumbass,” Around this time his relationship with Fenn faded out and he was seen with a couple other starlets including Jennifer Grey (from Dirty Dancing). There are plenty of stories about his actions on the set of 21 jump street including setting his underwear on fire and making up the script as he went along. He would throw out his own absurd ideas for the script, feeling this was one way to discount the scripts that he was uncomfortable with. Johnny was open about his feelings that the scripts be more “up to date” and dealing more with what the young people were experiencing in their lives at the time. Although these things may have been viewed by others as out in left field, some were deliberate attempts to be outrageous although some others were serious suggestions to bring Johnny’s ideas of important issues to light. He also was not happy about the fact that he was called upon by the show to speak about different subjects that he felt he had no authority to present to the public.
Becoming a Teen Idol
When Johnny got the call for the television show 21 Jump Street, he immediately said no. Johnny didn’t want to sign a contract that would commit him for years and years. Also, he felt that coming from a greatly appreciated film like Platoon, gambling on a new untested television show was a chance he wasn’t willing to take. When asked about the initial call Johnny said, “When they called and ask me to sign onto the show, I said, No, no, no, no, no, no?..I didn’t want to sign some big contract that would bind me for years, so they got someone else to do it. They fired him after about a month and then they called me again and said, ‘Will you Please do it?’ My agents said that the normal lifespan of a television show is thirteen episodes, one season, if that. So I finally said ok.” Part of this decision was a chance at security and a real current income. The first step for the producers was to finish taping the pilot episode. Johnny would play detective Tom Hanson, a police officer who looked too young for the job. Hanson was looked down on by his fellow officers and had something to prove. He is offered a position in the Jump Street program, posing undercover to arrest and protect the young kids in the high schools. 21 Jump Street took off as a huge hit; as it came on the heels of the huge anti-drug campaigns in the mid 1980’s.
The Way to Film
Lori and Johnny were still on good terms and believing in Johnny’s special talent, she introduced him to her friend, Nicholas Cage.
Nicholas was already an actor in his own right having starred in Rumblefish. Nicholas and Johnny hit it off right away and became great friends immediately. Nicholas suggested to Johnny that he try acting. Johnny laughed at first, but realized that acting might be a great way for him to bring in some much needed money and bankroll his music. Johnny went to meet Nicholas’ agent . She loved Johnny as soon as he walked in and much to his surprise she signed him right away even though he had no experience at all. The very first thing that she sent Johnny to do was to go audition for the new Wes Craven film. As soon as Johnny saw the script he was concerned. The part was written for a tall blond haired, football jock. Johnny showed up for the audition in earrings and spiked hair. He himself has stated while chuckling “I showed up for the part looking like a f**king catacomb dweller.” But Johnny had practiced the part and nailed the audition lines. There was no way for him to hide his charisma and charm and he won the director over easily. Craven’s daughter and her friends were at the reading and went absolutely wild over Johnny and his sex appeal. When Wes saw this, he was pushed over the edge and offered Johnny the role.
Youth and Marriage
About this time in his life, his brother Danny lent Johnny a copy of Jack Kerouac’s book called “On The Road.” Reading this book, Johnny said would change his whole life, the way that he looked at himself and what he wanted for his own future. He had never been much of a reader and still took no interest in school academics. Johnny said that when he read the book he felt that the book was speaking just to him and that he soaked up all the information and took it to heart. He began to dream of a better life, one that he had never seen or experienced. Johnny knew that he didn’t just want a mundane life of working nine to five. He knew that there was something more for him out there. This prompted him to start reading more and more. He read through books by such authors as Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg. Johnny has said “I had found the teachers and the proper motivation for my life there.” Seeing more of a potential in another kind of living, Johnny finally did the inevitable and dropped out of school. He stated once in an interview, “I knew that’s what I was going to do, then this counselor called me in his office. He looked me in the face and told me with a sigh, “You know Johnny, I just don’t think that high school is for you.’ He actually did me a great favor.”
Johnny’s great plan was to follow his dream to rock stardom.
Video And Audio Download Update
We added several videos from the Public Enemies premieres in Paris and London to our DOWNLOAD SECTION.
We also added audio files from the press conference in London and an interview Johnny gave for Capital 95.8.
You find them HERE.
Birth to Childhood
Johnny Depp came into this world on June 9th, 1963 as John Christopher Depp II. He was born in Owensboro, Kentucky in the United States. Owensboro is a small town in the mid-western U.S. on the southern banks of Ohio. His parents are John Christopher Depp Senior and Betty Sue. His father was a city engineer and his mother was a waitress in small coffee shops. Johnny says that he can remember sitting with his mother after her shifts and helping her count out all her tip change and money from that days work. He has always been very close to his mother and talks with great admiration about her and all her hardwork and persistence in striving to provide for the children as they grew up. He is the youngest of four children, two by an earlier marriage, to whom he has always been very close. His three siblings are 10 year older Danny (also known as DP and a screenwriter today), Debbie and Christie (today Christie Dembrowsky is Johnny’s personal assistant).
Johnny’s earliest childhood memory is catching lighting bugs, “creatures that are both fascinating and beautiful.” Early on, his family began to call him Johnny to differentiate him from his father in the home. He also took on lots of other nicknames from his siblings such as “Johnny Dip” and “Dippity dog.” Johnny and all his siblings have great ethnic features which Johnny says comes from his Irish and German and “god knows what”