We have news of a Mann/Depp team up in a depression era gangster film! We get the skinny from the professionals at Variety:
Michael Mann and Johnny Depp will make “Public Enemies” for Universal.
Drama is set during the great crime wave of 1933-34, when the government’s attempts to stop Depression-era criminal legends such as John Dillilnger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd transformed J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI into the country’s first federal police force. Mann wrote the script, based on Bryan Burrough’s 2004 tome.
Depp will play John Dillinger, considered the most notorious gangster of the era.
This is shaping up to be a bitchin’ news day. No gangster films are better than the ones that take place during the great depression. This period romanticizes the hooch running criminal as if they were Robin Hood and his band of merry men. Prohibition was bullshit and the mob were the only ones with the balls to supply the naughty demand. If it wasn’t for organized crime; prohibition may still exist, and the streets would be sombre with sobriety. History at times will redeem the criminals of yesteryear.
Johnny Depp as John Dillinger is a better casting than Jesus playing Jesus. Dillinger is a legendary man with balls as big as pumpkins. This dude talked his way out of prison with a gun carved out of a fuckin’ potato that was painted black with shoe polish. I enjoyed the John Milius Film about the man and look forward to Johnny Depp’s interpretation of the man. Dillinger was a fast talking, bank robbing dynamo, and he has left a legacy that makes for fantastic film adaptation. I am pumped about this news.
