A friend of mine said he heard the Depp DS project is no more, anyone know any more about this??
No offense to your friend, but he probably read one or more of the ridiculous reports that were posted on a few Web sites a few weeks ago. It all started with a misleading report in Entertainment Weekly
Hmm - it may take years, but apparently Entertainment Weekly does indeed own up to their mistakes. In next week's double issue (August 20/27, 2010) a section entitled "Our Best and Worst Predictions" appears - and in the "Way Off" section they list this gem:
Titanic
When the film got pushed back from a summer release in 1997, we thought it might be in trouble. "Sink: James Cameron," we wrote. "At least his reputation."Sound somewhat reminiscent of an EW article from the October 10, 2008 issue? And the inherent danger of mixing fact and editorializing too closely is that your readership often has a hard time separating the two. It shouldn't be mixed that closely as often as it is - but then, some writers wouldn't know how to write a straight fact piece, one completely devoid of their own opinions, if their lives depended on it.
Reporting just the facts is a dying art form - one that's slipping farther away every day and dangerously close to having the life support plug pulled...
It would be fascinating to go back to '97 to see if what was written in that EW article about Titanic/Cameron was suddenly spread all over the Internet as if it was complete fact, as their misleading '08 reporting on the Depp/DS film was. Though somehow I suspect it probably wasn't because things weren't anywhere near as bad back then as they are today, what with so many entertainment sites falling all over themselves to report what supposedly qualifies as news but which all too often actually has no substance in fact...