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...Hanks was very smart. He made several of the same kind of films in a row. Sweet films: Big, Sleepless in Seattle. So you thought of him as a product. I'd be very happy to do a bunch of comedies in a row. Sean Penn, Nic Cage, Johnny Depp have very established identities. I would enjoy being recognized for a kind of acting...
...Factory” —Someone should have told Tim Burton a long time ago that his days were over. Probably after his “Planet of the Apes” remake, which was, astonishingly, worse than “Gigli.” But with Johnny Depp, a popular Roald Dahl property, and hordes of pseudo-hipster NYU students who love Burton’s “dark, brooding sensibility” and the “amazing production design of ‘Batman,’” it?...
Film enchantment, of a baroque species that mixes the sordid with the soaring, is Gilliam's specialty--that, and making movies with big ideas and impossibly spectacular imagery. At times his films become missions impossible. The Spanish shoot of his epic The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, was so plagued by calamities that the only productive thing to come out of it was the disaster-movie documentary Lost in La Mancha. So many other projects have stalled that, at 64, Gilliam has joined the ranks of such hard-luck masters as Orson Welles...
Simply put, he gets to make movies because big stars--Robin Williams in The Fisher King, Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys, Depp in almost anything--love to participate in a Terry Gilliam adventure. "It's like coming to work every day to see a skeleton," Depp says, "and you all start throwing meat on it to see what monster you'll bring to life." Damon pursued Gilliam for years before landing a part in Grimm. "I grew up loving Time Bandits, the way that movie created this weird but totally convincing world," the actor says. "When I first...
...Instead, Depp delivers a believable portrayal of a man who couldn’t quite grow up. His juvenile retorts to the children—the funniest lines of the movie—highlight his childlike hostility. While Wilder’s Wonka was randomly quirky, Depp’s Wonka is a socially inept recluse trying desperately to conduct the special tour of his factory the right...