Johnny Depp may be in Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Six Fingers
Posted by liveforfilms on December 3, 2009
How’s about that for a long yet cool name for a film and a biopic no less. Although it could be some Spanish super team and their arch nemesis!
Serbian helmer Emir Kusturica is in advanced negotiations for Johnny Depp to star as Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa in his upcoming biopic titled Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Six Fingers according to Variety.
Kusturica, recently a guest of Italy’s Turin Film Festival, said the script, written with regular collaborator Gordan Mihic (“Time of the Gypsies,” “Black Cat, White Cat”), is completed, although shooting is not set to start until 2011, due to Depp’s prior commitments.
Salma Hayek is also in advanced talks to co-star.
The Spanish-language biopic is to be shot partly in Mexico, where Villa — an early 20th-century bandit who became a guerilla fighter and a hero to the poor — is an iconic historical figure. Depp will act in Spanish, Kusturica said.
Depp and Kusturica collaborated previously on Arizona Dream in 1993.
The script is based on the biographical novel “The Friends of Pancho Villa,” in which author James Carlos Blake recounts how Villa and his compadres had a great time fighting and robbing the rich, but also dancing, partying and making love.
Villa has previously been portrayed many times on screen by thesps such as Antonio Banderas, Telly Savalas and even Villa himself in the 1914 pic “The Life of General Villa,” which was produced by D.W. Griffith.
It will be interesting to see what Depp brings to the role.
Benilde Moreno said
I adore both Pancho Villa and Johnny Depp. I beg you Johnny, do not do that. You just can’t be Pancho Villa. That’s not your mood, nor your energy, nor your type, nor your kind of soul. If there is someone really opposite to you, this is it. This is not a “bandido”. Please don’t do it, for your own sake don’t.