Johnny Depp in Early Talks to Star in Crime Thriller TRIPLE FRONTIER

Motivated by his successful (but mostly unrewarded) role as Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in last year's "Black Mass", Johnny Depp is looking to star in yet another crime drama. The actor is in negotiations to join the long-gestating "Triple Frontier", a film that focuses on the organized crime operating in the Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil border zone. Tom Hanks is also attached to co-star in the film.

The project is in the works since 2009 with "The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal set to reunite. The project fell apart when the studio asked Bigelow to cast Will Smith in exchange for the requested $80 million budget. J.C. Chandor ("A Most Violent Year") is now set to helm the project with Boal still on board.

Depp recently finished work on "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" which will be released in 2017, and he can be seen this year in Disney's "Alice Through the Looking Glass" and Kevin Smith's horror comedy "Yoga Hosers".

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