Filmmaker Terry Gilliam, who helmed the films “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” in 1998 and “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” in 2009, has revealed that he is pursuing a role opposite Johnny Depp in a devilish film called “Carnival at the End of Days,” according to People.
The Monty Python actor hinted at the movie’s plot in a Variety interview while attending the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: “God wipes out humanity and the only character who wants to save them is Satan, and Johnny Depp plays Satan.”
Gilliam, eighty-three, continued by stating that the reason his God character brings about the end of humanity is “for f—ing up his beautiful garden Earth.” Since Satan is an eternal character and cannot work, he decides to stop the destruction “because without humanity, he’s lost his job and to live without a job is terrible.”
“So he finds some young people and he tries to convince God that these young people are the new Adam and Eve,” the British writer-director went on. God is still able to exterminate all people.”
He clarified the tone of the film by saying, “It’s a comedy.”
The director of “Lost in La Mancha,” a 2002 documentary on Gilliam’s failure to finish his Don Quixote adaptation, which starred Depp, jokingly pointed out to Variety that his name was listed above Depp’s in the credits, saying, “I have to keep him in his place.”
In the 2018 version of “Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce, a longtime Gilliam collaborator, are featured. For the Monty Python alum who was nominated for an Oscar in 1986 for screenwriting for Brazil, it’s the last cinematic credit.
The 60-year-old Depp and Gilliam first worked together on the film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing, which also starred Benicio del Toro. The director said that filming Thompson’s cameo was a “horrible” experience because the author had “to be the centre of attention” in a 2019 PeopleTV Couch Surfing segment.
Following the conclusion of his defamation trial with his ex-wife Amber Heard in June 2022, Depp’s first feature film was Jeanne Du Barry. According to People, the Pirates of Caribbean actor will next be seen in the animated film “Johnny Puff: Secret Mission,” which is scheduled for release in 2019.
Terry Gilliam wants Johnny Depp in his upcoming film.
