Depp, Hayek set for Pancho Villa movie
December 4th, 2009 - 6:33 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )
Los Angeles, Dec 4 (DPA) Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek are to star in Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s biopic about Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa, Variety reported.
The movie, to be titled Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Six Fingers, will start filming in 2011 due to Depp’s prior commitments, the report said Thursday.
The film is based on the biographical novel The Friends of Pancho Villa, which recounts how Villa and his compadres had a great time fighting and robbing the rich, but also dancing, partying and making love.
Depp will act in Spanish in the Spanish-language feature that will be shot partly in Mexico, where Villa - an early 20th-century bandit who became a guerrilla fighter and a hero to the poor - is an iconic historical figure.
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