{"id":225899,"date":"2025-12-10T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/225899\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:18:07","slug":"johnny-depp-to-produce-the-master-and-margarita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/225899\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp to Produce ‘The Master and Margarita’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohnny Depp<\/a>\u2018s comeback continues apace, with the actor set to produce the first English-language feature adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov\u2019s masterpiece The Master and Margarita. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe news was announced at Red Sea International<\/a> Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia<\/a> on Wednesday. Depp appeared at the festival to promote the project that is backed by his production company IN.2 Film, as well as producers Svetlana Dali and Grace Loh. IN.2\u2019s Stephen Deuters and Stephen Malit will also produce. The film will be produced in collaboration with Tribune Pictures.<\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producers on the project include Nevin Shalit, Andrew Fourman, World Visions\u2019 Konstantin Elkin, Tribune Pictures\u2019 Michael Paletta and the late Michael Lang.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo director is attached to the project and no casting details were revealed, though the film is set to go into production in late 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, Bulgakov\u2019s satirical and fantastical novel The Master and Margarita tells a story set in two time periods, set in two different locations: 1930s Moscow and Jerusalem in the time of Pontius Pilate. The focus of the story is the devil\u2019s reappearance in Moscow, along with a talking cat named Behemoth and other unsavory characters who create havoc amongst the corrupt citizens of the city.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough the Depp-led project is the first English-language feature adaptation, Bulgakov\u2019s book has been adapted for film, TV and theater several times in multiple languages. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJohnny Depp and IN.2 Film team announce \u2018The Master and Margarita\u2019 at the Red Sea International Film Festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRed Sea International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce one of Hollywood\u2019s most in-demand actors, Depp\u2019s film career stalled following his protracted and highly controversial legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard. Since 2019, the year Depp sued Heard for defamation over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed, the actor has only starred in the features Minamata (2020) and Jeanne du Barry (2023). He directed and produced Mod\u00ec, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, the 2024 biopic of Amedeo Modigliani that starred Riccardo Scamarcio, Stephen Graham and Al Pacino.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, Jeanne du Barry and Mod\u00ec were partially backed by the Red Sea Film Foundation, the Saudi non-profit behind the Red Sea Film Festival<\/a>. Modi also received an awards night gala screening at Red Sea Film Festival in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tMaster and Margarita comes as Depp steps up his Hollywood return. The actor\u2019s first mainstream project since Minamata, the Lionsgate feature Day Drinker<\/a>, also starring Pen\u00e9lope Cruz and directed by Marc Webb, started shooting in Spain in April. In October, Depp signed on for Paramount\u2019s new adaptation of Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol.<\/a> The actor will play Ebenezer Scrooge in a film that has Ti West attached to direct. <\/p>\n

\n\tDec. 10, 9:10 a.m. <\/strong>A previous version of this story incorrectly identified Johnny Depp as starring in The Master and Margherita, he is only producing the feature. No casting announcements have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp\u2018s comeback continues apace, with the actor set to produce the first English-language feature adaptation of Mikhail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,1452,17,12378,118022,117539,117025,15112],"class_list":{"0":"post-225899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-johnny-depp","15":"tag-red-sea-film-festival","16":"tag-red-sea-film-festival-2025","17":"tag-red-sea-international-film-festival","18":"tag-saudi-arabia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115696416612718857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}