Johnny Depp is in talks to play the lead in the film adaptation of Kyril Bonfiglioli’s seventies book series "The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery" for Lionsgate. Depp’s Infinitum Nihil partner Christi Dembrowsky and Andrew Lazar will be producers. The movie will be directed by David Koepp. Eric Aronson, who wrote Jurassic Park and Spider-Man and who directed the thriller “Premium Rush” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, wrote the screenplay. Warner Bros. was slated to produce the project, but they put it up for grabs earlier this year.
Johnny Depp would play the classy but roguish art dealer Charles Mortdecai who, the studio says “must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold.” Along the way Mortdecai has to contend with mad Russians, British spies, international terrorists and his wife.
Depp is fresh out of the saddle after playing Tonto in The Lone Ranger. He hopes to find his mustache before he starts work on the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean picture.
SOURCE: THR
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