Johnny Depp, Gore Verbinski team for Non-PIRATES movie
For the animated movie Rango, where Depp will voice a household pet.
Matt here Together grossing $2.7 billion on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, star Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski's first non-Disney collaboration will be an animated fare. Which is slightly disappointing to me as I always had a vague hope that they would do a Western together. I believe I read somewhere that Verbinski's favourite film ever was The Good, The Bad & The Ugly which is something I share with him and Depp has the great look of a Western lead which Robert Rodgriguez only half exploited in Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Alas, maybe next time. Variety say the movie is Rango, where Depp will voice the lead character, a household pet that goes on an adventure to discover its true self. Paramount are financing with ILM working on the animation, the same company that created the amazing look of Davy Jones in Pirates 2 and 3.
John Logan who wrote the words that Depp spoke in Sweeney Todd, has scribed the movie from an idea hatched by Verbinski which is being touted as the most ambitious star driven animated project in film history...
"Rango" aims to use cutting-edge animation techniques that "will allow us to capture and translate every aspect of Johnnys performance, using it to drive the computer-generated character in a way that has yet to be seen in an animated feature," Verbinski saidWork should begin on the film in January with a March 2011 release put in place. It will be Verbinski's next film which he hopes will be then followed by his adaptation of the Take Two horror/fantasy videogame Bioshock which is also scripted by Logan. From there, which could be as late as 2013, if no Pirates 4 is made... then that franchise might be done. Discuss: Excited for a Verbinski/Depp project that doesn't involve Pirates?