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Depp Deciding on Tourist

November 5th 2009 07:28


Johnny Depp is in talks to join Angelina Jolie in The Tourist, a film that is going through so many casting and directing changes, but will be in production this February.

If Depp joined Jolie, he would play an American tourist drawn into a web of intrigue and danger by a female Interpol agent (Jolie) as she attempts to locate a criminal who was once her lover.

You may be asking yourself, wait…I thought Sam Worthington was playing this part or Tom Cruise. You’re thoughts are correct but changes happen in the film biz fast and furious. Even Charlie Theron was attached to play Jolie’s part.

I am not sure about all the directors that have come and gone, but Alfonso Curaron is at the head of the line to take on this juicy and plum gig if he chooses to do so.

I like the idea of Depp and Jolie working together on a spy thriller. Don’t you?

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Comment by Bryn

November 6th 2009 02:14
Damn, I got very excited there for a moment and thought that finally the Clare Noto adult sf-horror movie was going to be made, but alas, alack, it sounds like a very different movie with the same title. Sigh.

Comment by Kenna

November 6th 2009 04:22
What is this movie about? Where is the information on this movie?

Comment by Bryn

November 6th 2009 05:26
You're asking about the Clare Noto movie? Legendary Hollywood screenplay that was written back in 1980 and went through pre-production hell for years and years. HR Giger was on board as designer, various A-listers, Sharon Stone, Kathleen Turner, Michelle Pfieffer, etc, attached to the project, but it was considered such a subversive and un-commercial project that producers wanted to change it and Clare Noto, the screenwriter refused to have it radically changed. It went through various re-writes and eventually most of the good ideas were plundered by other screenwriters and producers.
The basic plot had an alien in the guise of a sexy, successful corporate woman, Grace, trapped on earth trying to get back to her home planet. It turns out there are thousands of aliens on earth all in disguise. Grace ends up seraching in a subterranean lowlife realm trying to find an elusive alien who apparently has a way of leaving earth, but will Grace find him. Along the way she indulges her weird sexual fetishes ...
Men in Black is an example of a movie that has used one of the concepts from The Tourist (aliens hiding out on earth in disguise).

Comment by Kenna

November 6th 2009 05:38
Hmm. Sounds like a unique story, where the premise has been used several time since -- like the one about the gorgious robot lady, I can't think of the title. Yikes. Yes, MIB is similar, hmm.

He should turn it into a science fiction book. Like Three Days of the Condor author did. Once he wrote the book, got published, sold the screenwrites and handed over the script.


Comment by Bryn

November 7th 2009 02:21
I don't think any producers are interested in Clare Noto's original script anymore ... It's been too cannibalized

Comment by Kenna

November 7th 2009 03:02
Yes, you are probably right.

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