Los Angeles:
Long practiced at playing other people, Johnny Depp will next appear as classic children's author and illustrator, Dr Seuss. The biopic is being made by Depp's own production house, Infinitum Nihil, in collaboration with Illumination Entertainment and will be distributed by Universal Pictures.
Some of Depp's most lauded roles have been real life figures and, of these, two have been authors. He has twice played semi-fictionalised versions of American writer Hunter S. Thompson - in 1998's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, and in The Rum Diary which is currently in post-production. He also played Peter Pan creator JM Barrie in Finding Neverland (2004), a role for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
Depp's most beloved screen outings have been quirky and frankly odd. He has been an artificial man with scissors for hands; a swashbuckling pirate with a penchant for rum, complicated grammar and trouble; a chocolate maker with no people skills; and a Mad Hatter.
It is only fitting that he should play the man who gave the world such memorable characters as The Grinch and The Cat In The Hat.
Dr Seuss, real name Theodor Geisel, was a prolific and popular author, selling over 200 million copies worldwide.
He started out as a cartoonist and illustrator, first drawing advertising and comic strips and then political cartoons during World War II. By 1950, he was a published author and went on to write 46 books for children, including Horton Hears A Who! And Green Eggs And Ham. He died in 1991 of throat cancer.
Some of Depp's most lauded roles have been real life figures and, of these, two have been authors. He has twice played semi-fictionalised versions of American writer Hunter S. Thompson - in 1998's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, and in The Rum Diary which is currently in post-production. He also played Peter Pan creator JM Barrie in Finding Neverland (2004), a role for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
Depp's most beloved screen outings have been quirky and frankly odd. He has been an artificial man with scissors for hands; a swashbuckling pirate with a penchant for rum, complicated grammar and trouble; a chocolate maker with no people skills; and a Mad Hatter.
It is only fitting that he should play the man who gave the world such memorable characters as The Grinch and The Cat In The Hat.
Dr Seuss, real name Theodor Geisel, was a prolific and popular author, selling over 200 million copies worldwide.
He started out as a cartoonist and illustrator, first drawing advertising and comic strips and then political cartoons during World War II. By 1950, he was a published author and went on to write 46 books for children, including Horton Hears A Who! And Green Eggs And Ham. He died in 1991 of throat cancer.
