Looks like Collateral Beauty director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will have to make do without Hugh Jackman in his follow-up to Me And Earl And The Dying Girl. Deadline reports that the Wolverine star has had to drop out of the drama because of a diary clash with, well, the next **Wolverine.
Still, all is not lost: the producers behind the film are apparently looking to make a deal with Johnny Depp to step in and co-star alongside Rooney Mara. So given that Jackman will be seen onscreen with Mara in Pan playing Blackbeard, they’re looking to replace a pirate with a pirate…
Allan Loeb wrote the screenplay, which finds a New York advertising agency, and a man – presumably Depp’s character, if he signs on – struggling with depression after a tragedy that turns his world upside down. His colleagues devise a hugely unconventional plan to break him out of it, but they don’t count on what happens.
Mara is still attached to the film alongside Jason Segel and Gomez-Rejon is still scheduled to start shooting in the autumn, whether Depp takes the role or it goes to someone else, as there’s a lot of interest in this one, so stay tuned while every agent submits their client for consideration even as the team tries to lure Depp.