The screenwriters’ strike in Hollywood, which first hit only television productions, is now also harming Shantaram.
Shantaram, which was scheduled to begin shooting in India in February, has been put on hold due to strike-related script issues that threatened to push production into India?s monsoon season.
Also put on hold for Depp is The Rum Diary, an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson?s novel for Warner Independent Pictures. Bruce Robinson, whose 1987 comedy Withnail & I gained a cult following, was adapting and directing.
Rum, loosely based on Thompson?s experience working as a freelance journalist in Puerto Rico in the late 1950s, is in the development stages. Depp had planned to make the film after Shantaram.
Depp next appears on the big screen in Sweeney Todd, which premieres December 3 in New York.
