That’s a new photo of Johnny Depp playing desperado John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s PUBLIC ENEMIES, currently shooting on location in Chicago. The photo shows JD driving a getaway car in the dead of night down a Chicago street restored to 1930s ambience with faux cobblestones and vintage streetlights. To see a larger version of the photo, click here: http://tinyurl.com/6lbqez

Here’s what a blogger in the Lakeview area posted on April 2nd: “Right now, they’re shooting right next to where I live in the Lakeview neighborhood, Chicago. In fact, they created a shanty town right next to my building in the grassy area (well, it WAS covered with grass till now) underneath the CTA elevated train tracks. They started in earnest yesterday, and will shoot through tonight. All the scenes are being shot at night. What is more interesting, however, is how they’ve converted a large portion of the block to look like Chicago in the 1930’s. They have laid down a cover on the street to make it look like it is made of cobble stones. They replaced the street lamps with old-fashioned, gas-lamp lookalikes, and they’ve put several vintage cars on the street. They are also having old train cars to run on one of the train tracks on the elevated tracks. No wonder these movies cost an arm and a leg!” Many thanks to ZapperZ for the eyewitness report; you can read more details and see photos of the setting on the blog here: http://tinyurl.com/3xbxqn

The Zone thanks vermontfudge for posting the blog entry on the News & Views forum, and Bonnie and AnaMaria for the photos of Johnny driving. Here’s a video of some of the Chicago filming posted by Chicago website TheseBootsAreMadeforStalking.com; thanks to vermontfudge for finding this: http://tinyurl.com/5j47n6 –Part-Time Poet