![]() So here are the 10 characters that Depp played that did make me feel they will last a lifetime (even if one of them, Tonto in The Lone Ranger, is much reviled instead of revered). And his creepy pedophile, Wolf, was just a howling cameo in Into the Woods (2014). in Burton’s biopic, Ed Wood (1994), or his wicked turn as real-life American outlaw John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies (2009). ![]() Nor does his wide-eyed performance as schlock filmmaker Edward Wood Jr. The Lanz character does not make the list, although it was a memorable film debut for Depp. It is one of 10 iconic roles he has played in a film career that now spans 32 years - since the day he segued from TV stardom to play Glen Lanz in Wes Craven’s first instalment of the slasher franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Regardless of how anyone feels about Alice Through the Looking Glass as a film, Depp is memorable as The Mad Hatter. James Bobin, best known for collaborations with Sacha Baron Cohen, takes over the directorial reins while Cohen (playing Time itself) co-stars with Depp, Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Anne Hathaway as The White Queen and Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen. Burton is still involved, but this time just as a co-producer. Carroll’s famous books about Alice and her adventures in Wonderland. ![]() The long-awaited sequel, which features Depp as a Hatter whose days may be numbered due to gut-wrenching family grief, is extremely loosely based on the second of Lewis B. That would be, of course, in Tim Burton’s majestic live-action version of Alice in Wonderland (2010). ![]() In fact - and this is kind of incredible - the last time that Depp ignited a box office blast in a live-action film coincided with the last time he played The Mad Hatter. The 52-year-old Depp may be an iconoclast who does not give a toss about the money that his expensive movies make, but the loss of his one-time Midas Touch has not made Hollywood players either happy or confident. Johnny Depp, reprising his iconic role as The Mad Hatter, is seriously in need of a bona fide box office mega-hit. Concurrently, so is the career of one of the co-stars. The box office projections are in question. When the fantasy fairytale Alice Through the Looking Glass opens May 27, it will debut with huge expectations mixed with storm clouds of doubt.ĭespite the film’s obvious visual splendour, the early critical reviews are troubling.
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