When the comic book creator, Mark Millar, tells Tony Scott that he fancies those two actors for the movie adaptation, the helmer says he is going to ‘give them a call’.

Mark Millar’s hope to get Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp to portray the two lead characters in “Nemesis” has got a positive feedback from the movie’s director. When appearing on Richard Bacon show on BBC Radio Five Live, the comic book creator is asked whether those two A-list actors are going to star in the feature film and he replies, “That’s who the director’s going after, yeah.”

“Tony Scott, brother of Ridley Scott… I just got a call from him, literally about a month ago… it was one of those very surreal things,” Millar reveals his conversation with the movie’s director. “This is a $150 million budget… he said ‘Who do you fancy for it?’… I said ‘I dunno, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp’ so he said ‘That’s good, we’ll give them a call’.”

Millar previously stated that Pitt would fit to play Blake Morrow while Depp should portray Nemesis. He told Empire Online, “With Nemesis, you’ve got two great roles for two A-list stars… The thing is, one guy has to be as good as the other. You’ve got Holmes versus Moriarty here or Batman versus The Joker, so each one has got to be a $20 million actor, really. I think you could go for the A+ list and get Johnny Depp as Nemesis and Brad Pitt as Blake Morrow.” Read full article.

In the next “Pirates of the Caribbean,” Johnny Depp’s seafaring character Jack Sparrow will face a woman from his past and board another buccaneer’s ship, the studio behind the film said on Monday.

The Walt Disney Co revealed those story elements for the new film as it announced that production has started.

“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” is the fourth movie in the franchise, which to date has earned more than $1 billion at U.S. and Canada box offices. It will hit theaters in 3-D on May 20, 2011.

In the movie, Depp’s popular Sparrow character will run into a woman from his past, played by Oscar winner Penelope Cruz, Disney said. She will force Sparrow onto the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the legendary pirate ship run by Blackbeard, who will be played by Ian McShane.

Once on-board, Sparrow will need to keep an eye out on both Blackbeard and Cruz’s character.

Both McShane and Cruz are new cast members on the latest “Pirates” movie, taking the place of head-liners Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley.

Bloom, among other things, has a wedding on his agenda. On Monday, his representatives told celebrity news outlets the 33 year-old actor is engaged to Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr. [Source]

Hollywood star Johnny Depp and his partner, the French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, stepped out at the Cannes film festival for a surprise concert by punk rocker Patti Smith.

Paradis rubbed shoulders with fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and film-maker Tim Burton at a dinner held in her honour near the waterfront festival hall on Tuesday night.

Depp and Paradis are not appearing in films screened at the festival, which draws dozens of world celebrities to the Riviera town for two weeks each May. [Source]

The Doors will be celebrated on an upcoming American Masters on PBS.

“When You’re Strange” is the first feature documentary on The Doors, May 12.  Johnny Depp narrates this biopic on The Doors, one of the world’s most influential bands. 

“Tom DiCillo’s When You’re Strange is a meticulously crafted, exhilarating ode to one of music’s greatest ensembles, The Doors,” says narrator Johnny Depp.

“Watching the hypnotic, hitherto, unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes. Here, Jim has been resurrected to remind us that he is to this very day, one of the most significant frontmen/poets/shaman to ever grace a stage while the band behind him kept the music alive, adding fuel to an already raging ride into history. As a rock n’ roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn’t get any better than this. What an honor to have been involved. I am as proud of this as anything I have ever done.”

Just one year shy of the 40th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death, this documentary chronicles the band’s formation, rise and fall of Jim Morrison “Mr. Mojo Risin’”, and their transcendent music through the social upheavals of the 60s in America.   Read full article.