Terry Gilliam flirts with Johnny Depp to play Satan

“This is a story about God annihilating humanity for destroying his beautiful garden, the Earth,” says Terry Gilliam.

While he was struggling to find financing for his future film, Terry Gilliam seems to have found the solution to the equation. The former member of Monty Python and director of Army of the 12 Monkeys (1995) or more recently The man who killed Don Quixote (2018), made fun of his lack of resources by asking for the numberElon Musk. The presence of a superstar in the lead role of his future film The Carnival at the end of days,with a budget of $30 million, could it encourage European investments?

It is none other than Johnny Depp who would be approached to play the role of Satan, great savior of humanity in this comedy. Terry Gilliam pitched the film’s script:

“This is a story where God annihilates humanity for destroying his beautiful garden which is Earth. The only one who wants to save humanity is Satan and Johnny Depp plays Satan. Without Men, Satan no longer has any function. Since it is eternal, living without purpose is pure hell. So he desperately searches for young people, whom he intends to present to God as modern Adam and Eve. Nothing is won, it’s a comedy“, confided the director to Variety during his participation in the Red Sea Film Festival.

The filmmaker casually stated that he would like Johnny Depp plays the role of the devil – he also said he was confident about the actor’s participation.

The fact that Johnny Depp being able to be part of the casting should open up the field of possibilities for financing the film. Unless his recent setbacks with the law have a negative impact on the project? Beyond confirming the interest of the former interpreter of Jack Sparrow (whom he had already filmed in Lost in La Mancha And The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), Terry Gilliam announced in an interview to collaborate with a young screenwriter, Christopher Brett Bailey for his film which spiritually addresses ecological themes:

“I communicate with him (God) when I rest in nature. At such times, I am a tiny, insignificant being on the scale of the entire universe.“, declared the filmmaker.

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