Johnny Depp to play Satan in next role

Johnny Depp as Satan iHorror

Now that the dust has largely settled on his public defamation lawsuit, Johnny Depp is ready to hit the silver screen again. He stars in the 2023 film Jeanne-du-Barry , but for now he’s making his comedic comeback in Terry Gilliam’s film The Festival at the End of the Day as Lucifer, or as he’s been cast: Satan .

Log line, from IMDB :

“God, frustrated with what had happened on Earth, wanted to wipe out humanity and the only one who wanted to save them was Satan , who convinced God that the two young people he found were the new Adam and Eve .”

Depp’s career began in the 1980s when he worked with Wes Craven in A Nightmare on Elm Street . He moved to the small screen with the highly successful 21 Jump Street , in which he starred for four of its five seasons. Soon after, Tim Burton made him his muse and cast him in several of his future projects. He won a Golden Globe for his work in Burton’s Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street .

Depp is, of course, best known for his role as Disney’s wisecracking Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Terry Gilliam is known for his offbeat fantasy films including The Bandits , The Mermaid King , and 12 Monkeys .