Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp’s production company is working on the JP Donleavy cult classic, The Ginger Man. Depp will star in the movie as student Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield to begin filming in Ireland next year. It is reported that the author Donleavy is currently expanding the character role of ‘Brendan Behan’ for Shane MacGowan. Says Donleavy, “Behan only appears briefly in the book. I am writing a bigger part for Shane – Mr Depp wants him in the movie.”
According to dogmatika.com, Infinitum Nihil also have the rights to Joseph Gangemi’s Inamorata, a tale of supernatural Philadelphia in the 20s and are in talks with Canongate to acquire the rights to The People’s Act of Love, James Meek’s ‘Siberian Apocalypse Now’.
In 2005 they acquired Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down and have director Bruce Robinson signed up to direct Hunter Thompson’s The Rum Diary.
What’s next for Depp after finishing POTC and other current commitments is the autobiographical tale of Austalian Gregory David Roberts, a former heroin user who turned to bank robberies to support his habit in the 1970s.
Following a series of robberies, Roberts eventually was captured and sentenced to a lengthy jail term. But after two years he escaped from Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison, beginning an odyssey that took him to New Zealand, India, Afghanistan and Germany, where he was finally recaptured and extradited back to Australia.
“He lived in the slums of Bombay where he was sort of a slum doctor and took care of people for 10 years, but he also got involved with the Bombay Mafia and was making black market passports,” Depp said. “He survived for 10 years on the run.”
The movie version of Shantaram is likely to be released in 2007.
