Depp may costar with Jolie in The Tourist

Posted on November 5, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Actresses, Directors

Two beautiful and talented actors in the same movie. Can it be more Hollywood? Well, this is what we crave and desire, and sometimes the friendly Movie Gods grants us our greatest wishes…

Variety reports that Johnny Depp is in talks to star with Angelina Jolie in “The Tourist,” a film that is undergoing another major shift of elements as it heads toward a February production start. Depp is negotiating to play an American tourist drawn into a web of intrigue by a female Interpol agent (Jolie) who is attempting to locate a criminal who was once her lover.

The move comes after “Avatar” star Sam Worthington exited along with director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, both over creative differences. Directors including Alfonso Cuaron are already circling. Graham King, among others, is producing.

The prospect of a Depp-Jolie teaming is tantalizing in what’s just the latest turn for a project that has seen some of Hollywood’s top talents come and go. Spyglass initially set up the remake of the 2005 French thriller “Anthony Zimmer” with Bharat Nalluri directing and Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron circling. Worthington came into focus with Theron after Cruise took “Knight & Day” at Fox. Von Donnersmarck then came into the picture with Jolie.

Depp was brought into the mix by Graham King, with whom he has a close relationship, most recently collaborating on “The Rum Diary” and the Gore Verbinski-directed animated pic “Rango.” The emergence of Depp is surprising, since he was expected to make his next film at Disney: a fourth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean” or “The Lone Ranger.”

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