New project? Johnny Depp says he wants to play Kyril Bonfiglioli’s Charlie Mortdecai
July 6, 2013
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Posted by Part-Time Poet
Zoners who worried when Johnny Depp told Rolling Stone‘s Brian Hiatt that he “thinks every day about retirement” can take a deep breath: new movie projects and new characters continue to maintain their allure. In an interview with PopSugar’s Lindsay Miller, Johnny gave a surprising answer when asked about his next project:
Q: What do you want to do next? Is there something that you haven’t done or a story you haven’t told that you really want to?
JOHNNY DEPP: Yeah. There’s a couple of things, you know, that we’ve been talking about for years that we want to get made. There’s a great series of books by a guy named Kyril Bonfiglioli called The Mortdecai Trilogy and there’s one called The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery. And it’s a very funny series of books and a very interesting character.
Q: Okay, so that might be next.
JOHNNY DEPP: Might be. We’ll see. I hope so.
Charlie Mortdecai, the hero of Bonfiglioli’s books, is described as “a wealthy art dealer with a penchant for good food, bourbon, and fine clothes, who frequently finds himself caught up in strange cases of crime and espionage.” Sounds fascinating!
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