JOHNNY DEPP AS FRANK SINATRA???????
05.15.09
(Separated at birth?)
Question marks in the headline can mean only one thing: it’s time to prognosticate! Will humans land on Mars? Is purple the new pink? Would this monkey let me squeeze her tits for a banana? No one knows for sure, and that means we’re free to speculate wildly! Yee haw!
Considering Leonardo DiCaprio’s been the star of Marty Scorsese’s last four movies and has blue eyes (so dreamy…),the obvious speculation was that he’d be the guy to star in Scorsese’s Sinatra flick. But now Nikki Finke has some news to the contrary. Well, maybe not news, exactly…
I hear Universal’s first choice to fill the role may be Johnny Depp. The studio is thrilled with his performance in this summer’s forthcoming Public Enemies and very much wants to stay in the Johnny Depp business. Besides, it’s already been determined that the lead actor playing Sinatra won’t be singing. The movie will feature Sinatra’s own recordings thanks to a deal with Frank Sinatra Enterprises, guaranteeing the participation of the Sinatra estate and Warner Music Group. Besides, Scorsese and Depp have never worked together: that alone could be reason enough to see this pic. [DHD]
Well good thing they caught Public Enemies, otherwise who knows where they could’ve seen an obscure arthouse thesp like Johnny Depp? That guy’s hardly in anything. Anyway, whatever happens, I wish them luck. My great grandparents have been in the Johnny Depp business since they came over from the old country, and it’s hard honest work.
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There has to be a Public Enemy/Anthrax, Frank Sinatra joke in my pants somewhere. I can’t seem to find it though.
I’d like this only to see how creepy ass Depp would appear with those fake White Chicks blue contacts they’d have to make him wear to get this to work. Cause it looked so natural on Jessica Alba in Fantastic Shit.
Its too bad Harry Connick Jr. got old, that would have been perfect.
I didn’t notice anything from her shoulders up, ssica.
Well, we already know Depp does the drunkenness thing very well.
JHC, neither did she.
He’s so hot right now.
*gunshot*
No singing? :(
*pops Cry Baby back into VCR*
Somewhere Joe Piscopo is shaking his fist.
The bigger question to me is what American Idol reject they’ll stunt-cast as Joey Bishop. Is Taylor Hicks’ hair still gray?
Depp’s performance will be based on a dead singer instead of an undead musician.
Besides, Scorsese and Depp have never worked together: that alone could be reason enough to see this pic.
Depp hasn’t worked with Uwe Boll either. You think that would be a good idea too, Nikki Finke?
*Double Finga Gunz boner, blows smoke from Finga Barrelz, winks*
I want to start a campaign for Robert Downey Jr. to play Sammy Davis Jr. I mean it’s so obvious, RDJ has never worked with Scorcese and he was also named after his dad.
Waiitasec…if you cross song and dance with Edward Scissorhands…don’t you get Hugh Jackman?
Leo can play the doctor who ran Dolly Sinatra’s illegal abortion clinic.
“Baby in the gas tank…boom, boom!”
Fek: you get that or Sweeney Todd, I suppose.