Johnny Depp to make Keith Richards documentary

3 February 2010 1:59 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

For his first directorial foray in more than a decade, the world's most famous Pirate of the Caribbean is to make a film about the Rolling Stone

Johnny Depp is making a film about Keith Richards, and he's calling it Happy. The guitarist, who is known more for his benders than for his grin, will be the focus of Depp's first directorial foray in more than a decade.

"Now that I'm wiser, and that enough time has passed, I can experience directing again," Depp told the Serbian magazine Politika, according to a translation by the Playlist. "Next week I'll start working on a Keith Richards documentary."

Depp's last directorial outing was 1997's The Brave, which received mixed reviews. But this isn't the first time he has taken inspiration from Keith Richards: the Rolling Stone was reportedly one of the inspirations for Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean character, Jack Sparrow. »

- Sean Michaels

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