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Johnny Depp and Michael Mann Are Public Enemies

by Jeff Giles | December 06, 2007

Summary

Johnny Depp may not be filming Shantaram this winter, but he won't be out of work. Michael Mann is making sure of it. Back to Article

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RetroG writes:
on Dec 06 2007 03:29 PM

I loved Miami Vice

Why is there so much negative feedback to it?

And if it involved Michael Mann, count me in.

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Bloody Mathias writes:
on Dec 06 2007 04:40 PM

Many people think Micheal Mann hit a homerun with Collateral but not enough people give the credit to the fantastic screenplay by Stuart Beattie. It would be hard to make anything other than a good film from that script and a director like Mann who excels at the technicals of weapons and the crime world made sure that film would be remembered.

Than he went to to write a convuluted, souless, and for the most part, boring screenplay for Miami Vice. He's not a good writer and he proved that here although he did his best to make up for it with two great gun battles, it wasn't enough.
He also wrote Heat, which i think is wildly overrated but let's face it, about 45 minutes too long. Mann can not write a concise movie.

Now he's written a screeplay adapted from a book which should prove to be a much better film than MV if he liked it that much and having a quality actor like Depp to sign on must mean that his script is good.
On the other hand, Depp did do Polanski's awful 130 minute film "The Ninth Gate" so maybe i'm wrong about the quality of writing. Who knows?

All i know is that i be there opening day to judge it for myself.

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Mazula writes:
on Dec 06 2007 06:14 PM

If a person likes an actor enough to need a yearly "fix" of him then let the person have it. there's no sense in mocking the person because of it. anyway, this sounds good. I absolutely loved Collateral and actually, bloody mathias, it is possible to totally trash a good screenplay with an awful movie. I mean, did you actually read the screenplay yourself? if you apply your logic to every good movie then there are no good directors, only good screenplay writers. every good director has his good and bad movies (except for Christopher Nolan) and Mann is still a good director. Oh yeah, and to those idiots complaining about Depp not living up to Gene Wilder... shutup. The movie was an adaption of the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not a remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. So if you need to, compare Depp to the character from the book, not the Willy Wonka movie.

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wiggins writes:
on Dec 06 2007 06:36 PM

oh man, i totally forgot about the ninth gate. 2 hour lucky strike cigarette commercial. that one was terrible.

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hurdygurdyman writes:
on Dec 08 2007 10:20 AM

Mann is the perfect director for this project. Check out "Thief" with James Caan. Still in my top five of favorite films. Can't wait for this one.

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baladev writes:
on Feb 11 2008 10:14 AM

Johhny Depp and Christian Bale, this is a good match, plus Michael Mann

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fluffybunny27 writes:
on Mar 25 2008 07:58 PM

Johnny Depp is one of the true actors of our time. He will be awesome. Love him.

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amberk writes:
on Apr 16 2008 08:00 PM

Jonny Depp and everyone else who star in the movie are here in Oshkosh Wisconsin right now fliming for the movie and tbis is the most Awsome experice I have had as well as this Small Town there they have everything down town here in the 1930's area and they have them the same stores and offices that they were in the 30's its awsome to see it like that it makes you think of history and what it was like a movie that some Hollywood producer was born here and it 1912 came back and filmed a 8 min movie here in oshkosh to see that and its comming out for people to see the news papers are maken the papers like they were and putting stories in there about the 30's and people in town and in wisconsin who can tell stories and have connection with the Jonny Dillianger gang i found out a women up the street from me her husband got shot by baby face nelsen a guy in the dillianger gang its a awsome experice and everyone needs to see the movie when it comes out it is a nice peice of history and its soo exciteing and i feel horored to have it filmed 2 blocks away from my house

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amberk writes:
on Apr 16 2008 08:03 PM

Jonny Depp and everyone else who star in the movie are here in Oshkosh Wisconsin right now fliming for the movie and tbis is the most Awsome experice I have had as well as this Small Town there they have everything down town here in the 1930's area and they have them the same stores and offices that they were in the 30's its awsome to see it like that it makes you think of history and what it was like a movie that some Hollywood producer was born here and it 1912 came back and filmed a 8 min movie here in oshkosh to see that and its comming out for people to see the news papers are maken the papers like they were and putting stories in there about the 30's and people in town and in wisconsin who can tell stories and have connection with the Jonny Dillianger gang i found out a women up the street from me her husband got shot by baby face nelsen a guy in the dillianger gang its a awsome experice and everyone needs to see the movie when it comes out it is a nice peice of history and its soo exciteing and i feel horored to have it filmed 2 blocks away from my house

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