Steve Weintraub has an interview at Collider.com with Johnny Depp, who’s working the publicity circuit for the Wednesday release of Public Enemies. The interview covers a range of topics from his love for director Tim Burton, and their upcoming collaborations like next year’s Alice in Wonderland and the planned-but-not-in-production-yet Dark Shadows. He also had something to say about the possibility of a fourth Pirates of the Carribbean:
On Pirates, Johnny said, “What we’re trying to do is just get a script in order and make sure it’s the right thing to do. If we can get a great script it’d be a ball.”
Go read the entire interview for more from Depp. It’s a good little read.
I’m sure a lot of you are rolling your eyes over the idea of yet another Pirates movie. I’ll admit, the sequels weren’t nearly as good as the original, which was pretty damn awesome. Dead Man’s Chest was boring as hell until the climax, but I thought At World’s End redeemed the franchise enough to make me want to see another sequel. And don’t even try to deny it; you know you’d still go see another one too, even if you thought the sequels were crap.
And though I’ve never been on an acid trip, I think seeing Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is going to be about as close as you can get to one without actually dropping acid.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
The second Pirates film pissed me off because I hadn’t been following info about it on the ‘net, so I went in blind to the fact that it would basically be a lot of setup for the third film. I was angry that I sat through all that for what amounted to be a wannabe Empire Strikes Back for the Pirates franchise without nearly the power and emotional impact that ESB had. For me, though Depp’s character was likable enough, it was hard to feel bad for a scoundrel to get it in the end when he never fully redeemed himself along the way.
The third managed to get the bad taste of the second out of my head, though.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:15 am
An absent-minded person was standing in the middle of a busy intersection where a policeman was directing traffic, and he kept bugging the policeman because he was confused.
“Excuse me, Officer! Can you tell me how to get to the hospital?”The officer was very busy and said, “Just stand here and you’ll get there!”
June 30th, 2009 at 5:22 am
I would not go see another Pirates film ever, the others were so terrible I fell asleep in all of them. The only reason I went to watch the pirates films is because my girl friend fancies Johnny Depp. I will not give in to her to see such crap again.
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June 30th, 2009 at 6:26 am
I thought the first Pirates movie was good fun, but a few very reliable sources came down hard on the sequels and I never watched either of them.
Being a Tim Burton fan, however, I’m looking forward to Alice and Dark Shadows very much. Oh, and I’ll likely see Public Enemies, too.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:14 am
I always thought of myself in the minority for not like the Pirates movies. I didn’t like the first one, thinking it was immensely over-rated, so I didn’t bother with the sequels. Public Enemies looks terrific though.