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Black Mass is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film about American mobster Whitey Bulger.Directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, it is based on Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill's 2000 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob.
In 2009, Depp portrayed real-life gangster John Dillinger in Michael Mann's 1930s crime film Public Enemies. [88] It was commercially successful [89] and gained moderately positive reviews. [90] [91] Roger Ebert stated in his review that, "This Johnny Depp performance is something else. For once an actor playing a gangster does not seem to base ...
Depp was involved in a film adaptation of Shantaram which was postponed in late 2007, allowing him to star in Public Enemies. [4] [5] He was officially cast that December. [6] Depp described Dillinger as a "...man of the people...There is a Robin Hood edge to John Dillinger." [7] and "that era's rock and roll star. He was a very charismatic man ...
This gangster has friends in high places. The latest Black Mass trailer is set to Yelawolf's "Till It's Gone" as Kevin Weeks (Jesse Plemons) recounts the rise of his former boss and now fugitive ...
Maane Khatchatourian Variety When Johnny Depp's real-life character Whitey Bulger isn't shooting his enemies point-blank or choking them with rope, he's doling out advice to his 6-year-old son.
In addition, Depp portrayed the title character in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and appeared in Public Enemies (2009). In 2003, he portrayed Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series , starting with The Curse of the Black Pearl , and reprised the role in four sequels (2006–2017), becoming one of his ...
The film Black Mass – released September 18, 2015, in the US – stars Johnny Depp as Bulger and was directed by Scott Cooper. [138] The film's screenplay is based on the 2001 non-fiction book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob, by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. [139]
Lily-Rose Depp recently told Harper’s Bazaar UK that she was left “traumatized” by her father Johnny Depp’s 1990 fantasy movie “Edward Scissorhands.” The Tim Burton-directed classic ...