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According to Variety magazine, Johnny Depp has signed a deal to step into the shoes of one of the most notorious gangsters in US history, according to industry reports. Johnny Depp - The Pirates of the Caribbean star who is no stranger to playing infamous criminals will reportedly be awash in blood again as he picks up a machine gun to play John Dillinger, the notorious Depression-era bank robber famed for his slick heists during the public enemy era of early 1930s America.

Variety reports that Depp met with “Collateral” & “Heat” director Michael Mann to discuss an adaptation of Brian Burroughs’ 2004 book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.

This may be a combination of destiny. Michael Mann was thought to have been considering a spot in the director’s chair for the Tom Cruise-starring spy thriller Edwin A Salt.  But then Depp became available after he was to have starred in Warner/Initial Entertainment’s “Shantaram” followed by Warner Independent’s “The Rum Diaries,” but both of those projects were postponed last month, leaving the star with an opening in his schedule.
Along with Michael Mann, Kevin Misher is on board as producer; Robert De Niro and his partner Jane Rosenthal, who originally optioned the book, have been involved as exec producers; and the studio is looking at a March start in Chicago if all the elements come together.

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