Johnny Depp: Joins as male lead opposite to Angelina Jolie

Johnny Depp: Joins as male lead opposite to Angelina Jolie

Actor Johnny Depp has got the girl of his choice. She is none other than Angelina Jolie.

A close source says that actor Johnny Depp is in negotiations to play the male lead opposite to Angelina Jolie, replacing Sam Worthington who has fallen off.

Moreover the director Florian von Donnersmarck ("The Lives of Others") has gained an exit from the project over creative differences, and Alfonso Cuaron ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban") is undergoing talks to step in. Bharat Nalluri was once attached to direct with Tom Cruise in the lead role.

Angelina Jolie herself was a recent replacement for Charlize Theron, who was long attached to the project.

The revamp of the 2005 French spy thriller "Anthony Zimmer" involves a female Interpol agent who supports an American tourist visiting France into being bait in the hunt for a wanted criminal who is also her former lover.

Production is scheduled to start in the beginning of coming year. Graham King, the Oscar-winning producer of "The Departed," is financing and distributing through his GK Films' new output deal with Sony.

Johnny Depp has several films in the can including "Alice in Wonderland," "The Rum Diary”. However he has been waiting to get his next project moving. A fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" had been a strong possibility.