Post by JangoB on Dec 4, 2023 9:46:25 GMT
Former Monty Python member, animator and visionary director Terry Gilliam told Variety at the Red Sea Film Festival on Sunday that he wants Johnny Depp to play Satan in his new film “Carnival at the End of Days.”
Gilliam summarized the plot as: “God wipes out humanity and the only character who wants to save them is Satan, and Johnny Depp plays Satan.”
...the new film is being co-written with an unnamed 33-year-old scriptwriter, “because as you get older the world becomes more foreign to you.” The story is as wild as you’d expect from the creator of “12 Monkeys” and “Brazil.”
“This is a simple tale of God wiping out humanity for fucking up his beautiful garden Earth,” Gilliam said. “There’s only one character who’s trying to save humanity and that’s Satan, because without humanity he’s lost his job and he’s an eternal character and so to live without a job is terrible. So he finds some young people and he tries to convince God that these young people are the new Adam and Eve. God still gets to wipe out humanity. It’s a comedy.”
Which is where Depp comes in. Though the film is still at an early stage, Gilliam feels confident. He also noted that his name in “Lost in La Mancha” appears above that of Depp. “I have to keep him in his place,” he joked.
Gilliam summarized the plot as: “God wipes out humanity and the only character who wants to save them is Satan, and Johnny Depp plays Satan.”
...the new film is being co-written with an unnamed 33-year-old scriptwriter, “because as you get older the world becomes more foreign to you.” The story is as wild as you’d expect from the creator of “12 Monkeys” and “Brazil.”
“This is a simple tale of God wiping out humanity for fucking up his beautiful garden Earth,” Gilliam said. “There’s only one character who’s trying to save humanity and that’s Satan, because without humanity he’s lost his job and he’s an eternal character and so to live without a job is terrible. So he finds some young people and he tries to convince God that these young people are the new Adam and Eve. God still gets to wipe out humanity. It’s a comedy.”
Which is where Depp comes in. Though the film is still at an early stage, Gilliam feels confident. He also noted that his name in “Lost in La Mancha” appears above that of Depp. “I have to keep him in his place,” he joked.
variety.com/2023/film/global/terry-gilliam-johnny-depp-satan-carnival-at-the-end-of-days-1235820029/
