Johnny Depp is returning to Italy. After the final present together with his band, Hollywood Vampires (that includes Alice Cooper and Joe Perry from Aerosmith) in 2018 on the Lucca Summer season Pageant, the actor-musician-filmmaker will probably be feted with a lifetime achievement honor on the 2024 Rome Movie Fest, which runs October 16 to 27.
Depp can even debut his newest directorial mission on the fest: Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Insanity, which chronicles the turbulent lifetime of artist Amedeo Modigliani in 1916 Paris. Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Al Pacino and Antonia Desplat, the movie will display screen in Rome following its world premiere on the San Sebastián Movie Pageant.
The Rome honor comes as Depp makes an attempt to place his authorized battles with ex-wife Amber Heard behind him. Whereas his Hollywood profession has but to totally recuperate from the destructive publicity that surrounded the divorce, he stays widespread internationally and continues to be embraced by the movie group in Europe. In 2023, he opened the Cannes Movie Pageant with Jeanne du Barry from French filmmaker Maïwenn.
Different high-profile attendees at Rome Fest’s nineteenth version embody Viggo Mortensen and Francis Ford Coppola, each set to obtain particular honors. Mortensen will probably be readily available to current his western The Lifeless Don’t Damage starring Vicky Krieps. The movie is his second characteristic as director, following the 2020 drama Falling, starring Lance Henriksen. Coppola will display screen Megalopolis, his long-gestating epic about an bold architect (Adam Driver) decided to rebuild the fictional metropolis of New Rome following a devastating catastrophe.