If and when the studio revives the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Disney could give him the best birthday present without explicitly blocking him from returning to the role of Captain Jack Sparrow. Or perhaps daughter Lily Rose, who made him “a proud dad” thanks to the pop star’s humiliating part in Sam Levinson’s scorching series, The Idol. Or his ex-wife Amber Heard, who after a year sued him for defamation, paid the requested million dollars in a plea deal.
The years also pass for Johnny Depp who turns 60 on June 9.
The six decades have always been breaking, despite an ankle fracture last week that caused him to postpone concerts for his band Hollywood Vampires and, most recently, despite controversy surrounding a decision from a year ago, in which a jury in Fairfax, Virginia Proved them right. Hurd after a trial in which Johnny was described as an abusive husband, drug addict and molester. Depp won the case, but the legal case left him with broken bones and his chances of returning to Hollywood through good and bad times were gone forever. Instead, surprisingly, the former pirate is back to filming: not only that, his Jean du Barry, in which he plays King Louis XV, won the Cannes Film Festival in May for his seven-minute standing ovation. Opened with ovation. The rest of the cast At the same time, Depp received a record $20 million contract to become the testimonial of Sauvage perfumes by Dior, the very loyal French maison who did not unload him during the dark days of the trial. And in the meantime, a new cinematographic venture is being prepared: directing a biopic on Amedeo Modigliani, with Riccardo Scamarcio as the protagonist and then the winners of the César, Pierre Naini and Al Pacino. Shooting should begin this fall in Budapest and will be Depp’s second feature film behind the camera after 1997’s The Brave, in which he starred alongside friend Marlon Brando. But more than all of this – and the album 18 Over was released after a trial with his friend and mentor Jeff Beck, when it seemed that cinema was the one path for Johnny that was now closed forever – the return was remote. Chance is Jack Sparrow, his most iconic role.
Sean Bailey, president of Disney’s motion pictures division, has not explicitly blocked the way and when The New York Times asked him specifically a few days ago, he limited himself to saying that the studio “is not committed at the moment”. . On the other hand, at the last Oscars, producer Jerry Bruckheimer anticipated this possibility, speculating that “We’re So Close” to be a screenplay: “Personally I would love it. I can only say “. (handle).