As Johnny Depp steadily makes his approach again into Hollywood, he’s chosen one thing bold for his subsequent venture. Based on experiences, Depp will produce the primary English-language characteristic adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Grasp and Margarita.
Who’s becoming a member of Depp in producing The Grasp and Margarita?
Information in regards to the adaptation hails from Saudi Arabia’s Pink Sea Worldwide Movie Pageant, the place Depp promoted the venture in particular person whereas representing his manufacturing outfit IN.2 Movie. Producers Svetlana Dali and Grace Loh additionally joined Depp for the announcement. Along with the trio, IN. 2’s Stephen Deuters and Stephen Malit may also produce in collaboration with Tribune Photos. Govt producers embody Nevin Shalit, Andrew Fourman, World Visions’ Konstantin Elkin, Tribune Photos’ Michael Paletta and the late Michael Lang.
Though no director has been introduced, and casting particulars stay a thriller, we all know the movie is about to roll into manufacturing in 2026.
What’s Bulgakov’s The Grasp and Margarita about?
Whereas Depp’s adaptation is the primary time Bulgakov’s The Grasp and Margarita shall be offered as an English-language characteristic, the novel is the topic of different movie, TV, and theater initiatives in a number of languages. Penned within the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, Bulgakov’s traditional story “tells a story set in two time periods, set in two different locations: 1930s Moscow and Jerusalem in the time of Pontius Pilate. The focus of the story is the devil’s reappearance in Moscow, along with a talking cat named Behemoth and other unsavory characters who create havoc among the corrupt citizens of the city,” in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter’s description.
For extra particulars, right here’s an outline of Bulgakov’s novel, courtesy of Amazon:
The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written throughout Stalin’s regime and couldn’t be revealed till a few years after its creator’s demise. When the satan arrives in Thirties Moscow, consorting with a retinue of strange associates—together with a speaking black cat, an murderer, and a lovely bare witch—his antics wreak havoc among the many literary elite of the world capital of atheism. In the meantime, the Grasp, creator of an unpublished novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, languishes in despair in a pyschiatric hospital, whereas his devoted lover, Margarita, decides to promote her soul to avoid wasting him. As Bulgakov’s dazzlingly exuberant narrative weaves forwards and backwards between Moscow and historical Jerusalem, studded with scenes starting from a giddy Satanic ball to the homicide of Judas in Gethsemane, Margarita’s enduring love for the Grasp joins the strands of plot throughout area and time.
What else is Johnny Depp engaged on?
Past The Grasp and Margarita, Depp plans to star within the Lionsgate characteristic Day Drinker, starring Penélope Cruz and directed by Marc Webb. The movie started taking pictures in April, with the story specializing in an enigmatic stranger who kinds an unlikely bond with a grieving bartender who misplaced her lover, their lives intertwining in surprising methods. Along with Day Drinker, Depp will star as Ebenezer Scrooge in Paramount’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol from director Ti West.
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