Hollywood stars Penélope Cruz and Johnny Depp will star together in the film Day Drinker. This was reported by Deadline.
The film will be directed by Mark WebbKnown for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man and 500 Days of Summer. The plot is based on an original screenplay by Zach Dean about an encounter on a cruise ship between a bartender and a drinker.
The film will be Cruz and Depp’s fourth collaboration after Cocaine (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
For Johnny Depp, this film will mark a return to the big screen after a scandalous divorce from his ex-wife, the actress. amber heard in 2022.
As reported EADailyDepp’s last major work in Hollywood was Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which was released in 2018. In December of the same year, his ex-wife Amber Heard accused Depp of domestic violence. The actor was immediately banned from all future projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel; The companies refused to cooperate with the actor.
Depp filed a lawsuit against Heard for $50 million, accusing his ex-wife of depriving him of big projects. Heard countersued for $100 million. In 2022, the court ruled in favor of Depp. Gradually, the actor began to return to the screen, but in the independent films “Minamata”, “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “City of Lies”.