Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz will star in Day Drinker, a brand new thriller by The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb.

Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz will reunite for Day Drinker, a thriller being developed for Lionsgate and directed by Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man). This shall be Depp’s first main Hollywood film for the reason that scandal involving the fallout of his relationship with Amber Heard.

Day Drinker follows a cruise ship bartender who meets a mysterious day drinker, just for each of them to discover themselves entangled in a legal underbelly, and linked in surprising methods. “Day Drinker combines a highly commercial concept with wildly outrageous twists and turns all set in an incredible world,” stated Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, “and there’s no higher filmmaker than Marc or two extra completely solid actors than Johnny and Penélope to carry that world to life.“

This will mark Depp and Cruz’s fourth collaboration. They beforehand appeared collectively in Blow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Murder on the Orient Express. Zach Dean (The Gorge) wrote the unique spec screenplay and also will produce the challenge alongside Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, and Adam Kolbrenner.

Webb is presently in post-production on Disney’s live-action Snow White film, which can star Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot because the Evil Queen. The movie is slated for a March 21, 2025 launch.

Depp’s subsequent challenge is Modi, Three Days on the Wings of Madness. The actor doesn’t truly seem in the movie, however he directed it, his first time behind the digital camera in over twenty years. The challenge is a biopic of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani and is predicated on Dennis McIntyre’s play Modigliani, with a screenplay by Jerzy and Mary Kromolowski. Modi takes place over the course of 72 hours, with the synopsis studying, “On the run from the police, Modi’s desire to end his career and leave the city is dismissed by fellow Bohemians: French artist Maurice Utrillo, the Belarusian-born Chaim Soutine and his English muse and lover, Beatrice Hastings. Modi seeks advice from his Polish art dealer and friend Leopold Zborowski, but the chaos reaches a crescendo when he’s faced with a collector who could change his life.” Al Pacino performs a supporting position in Modi as real-life French artwork collector Maurice Gangnat. The movie shall be launched in Italy on November twenty first.