Johnny Depp‘s comeback continues apace, with the actor set to star in and produce in the first English-language feature adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece The Master and Margarita.
The news was announced at Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 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’s Stephen Deuters and Stephen Malit will also produce. The film will be produced in collaboration with Tribune Pictures.
Executive producers on the project include Nevin Shalit, Andrew Fourman, World Visions’ Konstantin Elkin, Tribune Pictures’ Michael Paletta and the late Michael Lang.
No director is attached to the project and no other casting details were revealed though the film is set to go into production in late 2026.
Written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, Bulgakov’s satirical and fantastical The Master and Margarita tells a story set in two time periods and two different locations: 1930s Moscow and Jerusalem in the time of Pontius Pilate. The focus of the story is the devil’s reappearance in Moscow, along with a talking cat named Behemoth and other unsavory characters who create havoc amongst the corrupt citizens of the city.
More to come.
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