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By Lexi Feinberg – Terry Zwigoff is set to direct an adaptation of Happy Days for Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil, says the Hollywood Reporter.
The bittersweet story by author Laurent Graff, follows a thirtysomething man who decides to leave his wife and children and check himself into a rest home. While there, he develops a special bond with an old woman suffering from cancer, taking her on a special journey as her last wish.
“Johnny Depp asked me to do the film,” Zwigoff said. “He said he chose me because I’m very Hal Ashby-like,” referring to the late director of the intergenerational romance “Harold and Maude.” “I took that as a compliment. It’s a very quaint, fantastical story.”
