Pirates of the Caribbean Star Johnny Depp Is Creating the Character of Hyde for a New Graphic Novel — and Ridley Scott Is Involved

Johnny Depp is returning to the limelight to make a Mr. Hyde graphic caller with famed manager Ridley Scott.

Depp and Scott, manager of Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator, are moving with accumulation institution Mechanical Cake to physique a new, archetypal amusement spot called Hyde, with each 3 having co-ownership. It each starts with a graphic novel, with main quality Hyde created by Depp himself.

Hyde picks up Mr. Hyde’s story, from the Robert Louis Stevenson novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and “imagines a satellite wherever Mr. Hyde has defeated Jekyll.”

“Now unencumbered by interruptions from his change ego, Hyde tin yet freely research his acheronian tendencies with uninhibited abandon," Mechanical Cake said.

Hyde by creator Chris Weston.

The two-volume graphic caller bid finds Mr. Hyde successful his caller domain, the sewers beneath London, wherever “he experiments connected others, utilizing the corrupting serum to make adjacent much Hydes.” Each measurement successful the bid volition incorporate 2 chapters with implicit 200 pages. Johnny Depp volition person input connected “all aspects of the spot and make the quality of Hyde.”

A enactment for property issued by Mechanical Cake included a remark from Depp: "To physique wrong the satellite of Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterful characters and to beryllium welcomed into the imaginativeness of Ridley Scott... and inexplicably having the accidental to explore. It's astonishing to me. And hopefully astonishing to him. It’s insane and beauteous to person that spot from Ridley. A master.”

The bid is written by Jesse Negron and Joe Matsumoto, edited by Dave Elliott, and drawn by artists Gary Erskine and Chris Weston. Hyde section 1 of 4 ships connected Halloween this year.

Meanwhile, determination are rumblings that Depp whitethorn instrumentality to the satellite of Pirates of the Caribbean, successful which helium played the much-loved Captain Jack Sparrow. In 2018, Depp mislaid a libel lawsuit helium lodged against the UK steadfast of The Sun paper implicit an nonfiction which characterised him arsenic having been convulsive towards his erstwhile woman Amber Heard. The pursuing year, Depp past successfully sued Heard for defamation implicit an nonfiction written by her successful The Washington Post, the work of which, Depp claimed, had led to Disney refusing to enactment with him.

But arsenic the years person passed, and Depp has again begun picking up projects elsewhere, Pirates of the Caribbean brag Jerry Bruckheimer has since stated helium was present keen for Depp to return.

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