By ANI

WASHINGTON: Actor Johnny Depp is predicament to cast off on the role of French king Louis XV.

As per Diversity, the 58-three hundred and sixty five days-extinct enormous name will characteristic as the controversial royal in a brand new movie from French filmmaker Maiwenn. The shoot for the upcoming film will inaugurate this summer time.

The yet-to-be-titled movie’s right predicament crucial sides are kept below wraps. It’s being produced by Pascal Caucheteux and Gregoire Sorlat’s Paris-based mostly fully Why Not Productions with Wild Bunch World handling world gross sales.

Filming will cast off establish for 3 months on predicament across Parisian landmarks, mainly at the Versailles Palace.

In its place of directing the movie, Maiwenn will furthermore enormous name alongside Depp as Countess Jeanne du Barry, Louis XV’s closing mistress.

Louis XV, who turn into nicknamed ‘the beloved’ and reigned for 59 years, the longest in the history of France after that of Louis XIV. Ironically, Louis XV died as an unpopular king after being accused of corruption and debauchery.

The upcoming film is the first that Depp has signed on to since shedding his libel case against a British tabloid in November 2020. He beforehand sued the outlet after it known as him a “accomplice-beater,” following his contentious split from now-ex-accomplice Amber Heard.

After shedding the case, Depp agreed to exit the role of dusky wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the ‘Harry Potter’ spinoff sequence, ‘Unbelievable Beasts’. Mads Mikkelsen turn into then solid as the villainous persona in the franchise’s upcoming third installment, ‘Unbelievable Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’.

Depp’s most up-to-date role turn into as photographer W. Eugene Smith in the drama ‘Minamata’, which he furthermore co-produced. Whereas ‘Minamata’ turn into now no longer launched in the US till last month, it premiered at the Berlin World Movie Festival on February 21, 2020.

Even though he has fallen from Hollywood’s honest graces, Depp hasn’t confronted a lot backlash in Europe.

He now no longer too long ago obtained honorary awards at the Karlovy Vary Festival and San Sebastian Movie Festival. Depp turn into furthermore smartly-known at the Deauville American Movie Festival, in the French Normandy, in 2020, and obtained an award from the palms of Catherine Deneuve.

Depp, who is taking on the role of the French king, lived in France for quite loads of years with Vanessa Paradis, with whom he has a daughter, Lily Rose Depp.

The duration movie will sign a departure for Maiwenn, an actor-turned into-filmmaker whose movies are all contemporary and incessantly interior most.

Her last film ‘DNA’, a thought-upsetting ensemble family drama turn into segment of Cannes 2020’s Official Decision. Her old film, ‘Mon Roi’ earned its enormous name Emmanuelle Bercot a simplest actress award at Cannes in 2015; whereas her 2011 drama ‘Polisse’ obtained the Cannes jury prize.