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Johnny Depp to Star in Pancho Villa Biopic with a Long Title

Movie News By Neil Miller on December 3, 2009 | View Comments

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Serbian director Emir Kusturica is ready to make a movie about Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. He’s given it a ridiculously long title — Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman with Six Fingers (dear God, I hope they change that) — and he’s out on the town, looking for talent. Luckily, he appears to have found some major talent in the likes of Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek.

According to Variety, Depp is in “advanced negotiations” to star as Pancho Villa. He would join a legion of actors who have played the iconic revolutionary (who oddly, does not have his own t-shirt like Ché). The list includes Yul Brenner (Villa Rides, 1968) and Antonio Banderas (And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, 2003).

What’s more interesting is that 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. Hayek, who was born in Mexico, shouldn’t have any trouble following suit.

The film isn’t set to shoot until 2011, and despite having a completed script, they will wait for Depp to finish up all of his other commitments.

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ladyofthelake

Uh…. I have no words. Bomb. Okay maybe I do have one word.
Osiris3657

Depp knows how to speak Spanish? That's news to me. I studied Pancho Villa this semester and this “hero” attacked the US. His forces attacked a small town in New Mexico because he believed the US was helping his enemies in Mexico. I believe they killed 18 American civilians.
nicky_cavella

yea and the US got all japanese ppl and imprisoned them in camps here in the US during WW2, what a great country we live in. we also took the NATIVE americans land, wow i love being an american, oh and you FAIL
nicky_cavella

why cant they get a real mexican to play him, wow this is going to be another shitfest like the selena movie was.
Osiris3657

then get the fuck out. France sounds like the perfect country for you, whiny bitch.
nicky_cavella

it sounds like OSIRIS is proud of what the US has done over the years, heck hes probably a white supremacist. hes also proud of the IRAQ and AFGHAN war and likes to watch our soldiers ship off and die :D
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Johnny Depp is an awesome actor and his dialogue delivery is just too too good. Awesome work in Public Enemies. I will be waiting forward for the movie.
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He gorgeous, intelligent, brilliant actor who obviously has a good sense of humour and appears to be a bit eccentric…Johnny Depp….mmmmmm!
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