Amber Heard to star opposite Johnny Depp in ‘The Rum Diary’

Hollywood naughty Amber Heard is in is in talks to star opposite Johnny Depp in ‘The Rum Diary’ to be directed by Bruce Robinson. The film is an adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel.

The movie is about a washed-up, hard-drinking journalist named Paul Kemp (Depp) in 1950s Puerto Rico at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean.

Amber Heard will play the role of Chenault, the free-spirited girlfriend of a fellow journalist Sanderson, who cheats on him with Kemp, trying to convince him to run away with her. Heard’s films include ‘All the Boys Love Mandy Lane’ and ‘Pineapple Express’. She is also going to star in John Carpenter’s “The Ward,” and also has a cameo in Woody Harrelson’s “Zombieland”

The shooting of the flick is going to start on 30th March, 09 in Puerto Rico. Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil, Christi Dembrowski and Graham King’s GK Films are producing this film.

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John Carpenter to direct ‘The Ward’

John Carpenter of classic films ‘Assault on Precinct 13’, ‘Halloween’, ‘The Thing’, ‘Escape From New York’, and ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ is going to direct psychological thriller film “The Ward”. He last helmed the film “Ghosts of Mars” in 2001. Echo Lake Entertainment and Saw series’ Peter Block are jointly producing the film. The shooting of the flick is scheduled to start in May 2009.

The script was written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen. The movie is about a young woman in a mental institution who is terrorized by a ghost. Amber Heard of ‘Alpha Dog’, Remember the Daze”, “Never Back Down” and “Pineapple Express” fame is going to play the woman role.

Carpenter said: “The Ward is the kind of script that I’ve been looking for: a complex, visceral story, full of suspense and scares”.

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