We have news of a Mann/Depp team up in a depression era gangster film! We get the skinny from the professionals at Variety:
Michael Mann and Johnny Depp will make “Public Enemies” for Universal.
Drama is set during the great crime wave of 1933-34, when the government’s attempts to stop Depression-era criminal legends such as John Dillilnger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd transformed J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI into the country’s first federal police force. Mann wrote the script, based on Bryan Burrough’s 2004 tome.
Depp will play John Dillinger, considered the most notorious gangster of the era.
This is shaping up to be a bitchin’ news day. No gangster films are better than the ones that take place during the great depression. This period romanticizes the hooch running criminal as if they were Robin Hood and his band of merry men. Prohibition was bullshit and the mob were the only ones with the balls to supply the naughty demand. If it wasn’t for organized crime; prohibition may still exist, and the streets would be sombre with sobriety. History at times will redeem the criminals of yesteryear.
Johnny Depp as John Dillinger is a better casting than Jesus playing Jesus. Dillinger is a legendary man with balls as big as pumpkins. This dude talked his way out of prison with a gun carved out of a fuckin’ potato that was painted black with shoe polish. I enjoyed the John Milius Film about the man and look forward to Johnny Depp’s interpretation of the man. Dillinger was a fast talking, bank robbing dynamo, and he has left a legacy that makes for fantastic film adaptation. I am pumped about this news.
I have visited the John Dillinger Museum. The gun was most most likely made from a washboard, not a potato. It was at the museum.
(Type your commnet here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so)Dose anyone know when they will be filming in Indiana for the prison break?
oh and, Leigh Farrah, the audition are this satruday as in THIS SATURDAY MARCH 8th!!! You have to go to be considered. I think the only parts are background. But hey, maybe someone will see you! Good Luck, i think it’s a wonderful opportunity, Wisconsin never gets any movie publicity.
My great uncle is John Dillinger…or is it was?
I’m sooooo pumped for the movie. My family is going to visit the set in Greenbay since we live in Michigan.
I wanted to know when they will be in Wisconsin to do the movie. I did some acting in California some years back and wanted to maybe audition for a role. I live here in Wisconsin and would love the honor to come and audition for a part. I am 28 about 5’7″ weight is 140 and have long curly brown hair with stunning blue eyes. Please let me know if I could possibly be used. It would be a dream come true to be a part of something this great with such wonderfull actors.
can you please let me know where the casting call will be at. thank you.
Very true Doug, and there is a lot of plot twists Mann can run with…including that Dillinger was not shot outside of the theatre in Chicago, but rather a look alike. I look forward to this one.
hahahahah that is an honest answer!
See this where I become morally conflicted.
I am completely against glamorizing the criminal element. Every gang member in LA thinks they are Al Pacino in “Scarface.”
I am against over-glamourizing violence in movies.
But for some reason when talented people combine the two.. .the result is usually kick ass!