News Today is a Crock of Crap:
Searching for the Depp-Dali Screenplay Competition
by Jaden
Kindly, a friend tipped me off to this exciting news bit on the wire about Johnny Depp looking for a screenplay about Salvador Dali.
Floating on countless news websites is this:
A source said: “He’s open to working with anyone – from housewives to pensioners – if the script is right.”
A lover of Dali, Depp, Paris, and screenwriting, I looked further into it, but could not find a single word legitimizing the statement.
WHO is the “source?”
The best I could trace the statement back to is Bangshowbiz out of London — London, gossip capital of the world! Who at Bang wrote this? Who was their source?
Talk about rumors! Here we have this mystery source — probably some Parisian waitress — who overheard Depp talking casually at dinner to his gorgeous wife how he’d like to play Dali if only he could find the right script.
Is it news when one person tells one person who tells another person who tells another person something the first person overhead when she was eavesdropping on what one person was saying to another person in a private conversation?
Or is this just another piece of sensational gossip?
Today’s news is hearsay. For something to be news today, one person just has to print it and call it news. Then everyone else picks it up and reprints it.
Does anyone do investigative reporting anymore? Everyone just accepts whatever they are told. Reprint. Reprint. Reprint. All I could find was the exact same article on tons of different websites.
The Internet permits news to become a receptacle for sewage.
Gone are the days when reporters moved from their chairs! Now we just get lazy reporting from people sitting at their computer digging up dung off the Internet and reprinting it.
Where are the official entry address and guidelines for this script Depp supposedly wants? Who is going to read all these scripts flooding in from around the world? Does his representation back this statement? Anyone ask Depp or his reps about this? I’d like to hear what they have to say.
Around the world, people are now writing scripts for Depp about Dali, without ever considering the source of this news piece, or I should say, the lack of source.
According to Bangshowbiz:
Al Pacino and Peter O’Toole are being lined up to star in rival movies, Dali and I and Goodbye Dali respectively.
Depp would be perfect to play Dali, but if two movies are already in the works about Dali, is Depp really going to make the massive financial commitment to a third?
I wanted to tell my readers about how to submit for this awesome screenwriting opportunity, but it doesn’t exist! From what I can see, it is just another trashy traffic-attracting hoax.
If anyone can validate the source and Depp’s desire for this Dali script, please do! We would all love to know.
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Searching for the Depp-Dali Screenplay Competition”
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…is that a non-denial denial? or do you know something that you aren’t telling us (enquiring minds want to know!)
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Muzz — (laughing) I just wrote this article to ward off competitors! Ha ha. Just kidding. That news blip was definitely a crock of crap, but the rumor still floats that J. Depp wants to play Dali. He’s not holding “auditions” for a script, since auditions are for actors. I’m sure all the usual avenues apply: your agent sends the script to his agent. Standard procedure. If an amazing script happens upon him, I would guess they would try to make it into a movie — whether Dali is the subject or not.
Anyone who loves Depp, I would encourage to write with Depp in mind and get the script to his agent. Maybe Depp won’t play the part, but who knows, you could come up with an amazing script that someone else produces and makes into a blockbuster movie.
People should use anything that inspires them to get their script written. The script will then take on a life of its own and go where it needs to go, once you get it out there.
[...] in March, there was a big stir amongst screenwriters and fans on the Internet about Johnny Depp ‘auditioning’ scripts in search of a screenplay about Salvador [...]
Hi
Just wanted to say, I called Johnny’s rep and she confirmed that this was in fact a rumor. I was very disappointed, because I love to write screenplays!
thanks
E — Thanks for doing the footwork on that one! Mystery solved by a great sleuth.
Hi,
do you have a job for a german editor and writer?
hey jaden,
thats nice. i’ll write you if i have the time to write. another question: whats the english word for cuts film? cutter? …?
Hi Anne, I’m not sure exactly what the word you are seeking is. We say “cuts film” as well.
In the old days, an Editor cut the film. I think these days, Editors mostly work in the digital realm, and film is transferred to digital before editing happens. Maybe “editing” is the word you are seeking?
The “dailies” are negatives that come in from each shoot day go to the “negative assembly department” where a person may “assemble dailies” actually handling the film.
Does any of that make sense?
i love his movie Edwards Scissorhands, i think it is one of Johnny Depp’s best performance aside from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Johnny Depp is a handsome actor and he is great in acting too. this guy has really the talent to do great movies.
Johnny Depp is not only very handsome but a very talented actor.
Johny Depp is talented and very funny too, his best performance is being Jack Sparrow.
Johnny Depp is my idol. such an amazing guy.