Posts tagged with ‘johnny depp’

‘Dark Shadows’ featurette on the history of vampires

An interesting behind the scenes look at ‘Dark Shadows’, the history of the cinematic vampire and Johnny Depp’s inspiration for Barnabus Collins. Obviously, his biggest inspiration was Jonathan Frig, who played the original Barnabus in the original Dark Shadows series… good times.

Johnny Depp gives Ricky Gervais a piece of his mind

From Life’s Too Short, Warwick Davis introduces Johnny Depp to Ricky Gervais and Depp has some choice words in regards to Gervais’ Golden Globes hosting thing.

Oh, but they’re friends IRL. Here’s Depp and Gervais flushing Warwick Davis down the toilet.

Finally, there’s a trailer for The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp

Supplanting Thompson for the second time onscreen (the first time was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Depp plays Paul Kemp, a booze-loving journalist who travels to Puerto Rico on assignment. As in the novel, movie Kemp becomes involved with a beautiful young woman (Amber Heard), squabbles with his editor (Richard Jenkins) and enjoys copious drunken, sometimes drug-induced and violent, revelry. Unlike the novel though, Robinson seems to have given Kemp a hero-making journey. Instead of a directionless writer soaking up the Puerto Rican rays and rum, Depp’s Kemp is on a mission to take down a corrupt businessman (Aaron Eckhart).

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Behind the scenes and on the set of Rango with Johnny Depp

And yes, I do mean “set”. With most animated films, the voice actors show up in their jammies with a cup of coffee and say their lines in their own little studios and rarely do any of the actors actually meet each other. With Rango, director Gore Verbinski wanted a natural acting experience, and so had the actors together on set. It’s not how things are normally done, but from the trailers I’ve seen for Rango, it does seem to bring a whole lot of personality to the process.

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First teaser trailer-ish thing for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Not really teaser trailer as much as it is an announcement by Captain Jack Sparrow of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Oh great… fantastic… several more years of idiots showing up at cons dressed as Captain Jack, wobbling around and speaking exclusively in that stupid half-drunken accent. 

Johnny Depp’s played a lot of interesting characters, but in next year’s animated film Rango, he’ll be playing a Hawaiian-shirted chameleon on an adventure to find himself. Wait, don’t start making awful faces now, just watch the trailer… it’s surprisingly funny and entertaining.

Rango is an original story from director Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean) about a chameleon named Rango who is a house pet who escapes into the Mojave desert to “discover his true self.” The movie co-stars Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, and Timothy Olyphant as The Spirit of the West.

And yes, that appears to Hunter S. Thompson’s car Rango goes bouncing off of around 1:45… which seems fitting, since it appears that the movie is trying to come off as a sort of a weird spin-off of Fear and Loathing, if Thompson had eaten several sheets of acid and freezer bag full of shrooms and went off on a week-long trip where his vitriolic rants about Nixon and the American Dream were replaced with visions of himself as a strange and awkward chameleon lost in a sea of gila monsters in cowboy hats downing tequila in a Wild West saloon.

Oh, and the animation from Industrial Light and Magic looks amazing.