Johnny Depp has been the subject of much chatter about his turbulent private life and spending habits. So perhaps there is some meta-commentary to be found in him playing a man who decides to behave badly after big news. Depp has landed the lead in Wayne Roberts' new film Richard Says Goodbye.
The title character is a world-weary college professor who, according to the synopsis, is given "a live-changing diagnosis". With that title, you've got to figure it's a "life-ending diagnosis" and so he throws all pretense out of the window and indulges in a life that is as free as possible. He embraces every vice going, drink, drugs, smoking, sex and throwing insults at anyone who annoys him, which gives him more pleasure than he's ever had.
This will be Roberts' second film as writer/director after Katie Says Goodbye (someone has a title preference), but there's no evidence yet that this one connects in any way to his first.
Depp, meanwhile, is back on our screens as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (contractual reminder that that's the UK title) on the 26th of this month and will be an ill-fated tycoon in Murder On The Orient Express, pulling in on 3 November.
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