He will soon be seen in the fifth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge, but Johnny Depp has lined up his next big project, which will be the real-life black comedy King Of The Jungle.
The planned film will be directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa from a script by Golden Globe and Emmy Award winners Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. The Hollywood Reporter says that the film will see Depp play John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee Antivirus software who cashed in his fortune, left civilisation and moved to the jungle in Belize. There, he set-up a Colonel Kurtz-like compound of guns, sex and madness.
The film will be based on the Wired article John McAfee’s Last Stand by Joshua Davis where Davis accepts what he thinks is a run-of-the-mill assignment to interview McAfee, but once he arrives in Belize, he finds himself pulled into McAfee’s escalating paranoia, slippery reality and murder.
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