When it comes to Depp's projects, it seems as if almost anything can happen. Roles are announced, they seem to be on the fast track, but then, like Shantaram, they sometimes get sidetracked and others crop out in their places. And if we can go by what Jim Pierson said at the Fest, the DS script is in early development. IF the Depp/DS film was to begin production by the first quarter or so of 2010, it could easily be ready for release by fall/winter (which is more the time of year when I'd hope it would come out because I see DS as a fall film, not a summer film). The possibility that Depp may start to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote before the summer of 2009 probably shouldn't affect DS at all. The thing that could really hold it up, though, is IF Tim Burton is indeed going to direct because his schedule is far most complicated than Depp's.