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Depp as Pancho Villa

by | Mar 20, 2010 | Western Movies

Johnny Depp and Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica will be collaborating once again on a picture, Wild Roses, Tender Roses, that is an adaptation of James Carlos Blake’s acclaimed 1996 novel The Friends of Pancho Villa. The pair worked together on the 1993, award-winning film Arizona Dream. In Wild Roses, Tender Roses, Depp will play Villa. Salma Hayek is also circling the project. Kusturica, who is one of the most respected international filmmakers, says he expects Depp to learn Spanish for


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