Johnny Depp will direct a film about Modigliani

After 25 years of his latest work as a director, actor Johnny Depp is preparing to direct a film about the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), which he will produce with Al Pacino and Barry Navidi.

A quarter of a century after his directorial debut in The warriorwho directed with Marlon Brandon in 1997, Depp will go behind the scenes to tackle the artist’s story, based on the work of Dennis McIntyre.

“I am incredibly honored to bring his life to the screen,” Depp said in remarks posted by The Hollywood reporter. “It was a life of great difficulty – she added – but in the end a triumph, a universally human story in which all viewers can identify”.

The film, which will begin production around April 2023, is the actor’s second job project after the media trial for defamation which pitted him against his ex, Amber Heard, who she had accused him of gender-based violence.

In addition, the film on the signs of the Italian artist a new collaboration between Pacino and Navidiwho previously worked on films such as The merchant of Venice Y Salome. “Al introduced me to Modigliani’s work many years ago and I immediately fell in love with it,” said Navidi.

Depp will be Louis XV

In relation to Depp, a week ago they transcended the first images of the actor as Louis XVa film that began shooting in July and is directed and starring Frenchman Maiwenn Le Besco.

Louis XV is a royal romantic drama in which Maiwenn plays Jeanne du Barry, the king’s official mistress and the king’s favorite, who has also taken center stage from none other than Marie Antoinette.

Madame du Barry possessed an indefinable charm that made women envious and seduced men. So much so that she, according to Louis XV, she was the only woman in France to make him forget that she was in her sixties. Du Barry was guillotined on December 8, 1793, during the French Revolution.

Depp’s last film role was in 2020 in minmataan independent film in which he played the role of photojournalist Eugene Smith.

Trial and acquittal

The actor, after the meeting the sentence that acquitted him of the accusation by Amber Heard for gender-based violence, said: “My life has been given back.”

It was the process most followed by the media in recent decades; the presence of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, mutually accused of defamation, he held a large part of the social news with bated breath and the followers of both stars of Hollywood during the nearly two months that the lawsuit lasted on the stand.

So, when the verdict was known, Depp’s reaction was one of overt, albeit sober joy. He came out victorious from the process that put his image and his career at risk.

At that moment, he posted an emotional and extensive letter on Instagram, in which he expressed that he owed this victory to his family, his children and all his loved ones who have supported him for years and publicly defended him: “This sentence gave me my life back and I feel in this moment an enormous peace knowing that finally justice has been achieved ”.