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Johnny Depp is nearing a deal to star in David Koepp’s Mortdecai, an adaptation of Kyril Bonfiglioli’s comedic crime novel The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery that Lionsgate has acquired after Warner Bros. put it in turnaround, said a report.
Koepp will direct from a script by Eric Aronson (On the Line).
Andrew Lazar of Mad Chance will produce the movie with Depp and his Infinitum Nihil partner Christi Dembrowski.
Lionsgate executives Erik Feig, Michael Paseornek, Gillian Bohrer and James Myers will oversee the project for the studio.
Mortdecai was in development for years at Warners but never got off the ground despite the fact that Depp was attached to star and his Secret Window collaborator Koepp was set to direct. Depp said that he was hopeful the project would be his next picture, as ‘it’s a very funny series of books and a very interesting character’.
