For the first time in 25 years, American actor Johnny Depp will take the helm of a feature film about the Italian artist Amede Modigliani. According to Deadline, the 59-year-old actor will also co-produce the film with Al Pacino and Barry Navidi, which will be based on the 48-hour life of Modigliani who died of poverty in the 1920s. Modigliani is based on Dennis McIntyre’s 1979 play of the same name, which describes the painter’s life in Paris in 1916. The film will be Johnny Depp’s second directorial effort. He made his directorial debut with the 1997 film The Brave, starring Marlon Brando.
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Everything you need to know about Johnny Depp’s film inspiration, Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy on July 12, 1884. He was a sculptor and painter whose work was characterized by elongated figures, asymmetrical compositions and the use of basic lines. Modigliani was born in Italy to Jewish parents and moved to Paris in 1906. There he became involved in the art scene of Montmartre, where he met artists such as Constantin Brancusi and Pablo Picasso, who influenced the reductive nature of his creations. The artist also appreciated traditional Italian Renaissance painting, which he studied as an art student in Florence and Venice.
Career
At the Salon d’Automne in 1912, he presented his work of eight stone heads of simpler and more elongated shapes influenced by African sculptures. Amedeo, who was not a professional painter, painted not only his friends and famous people in the Parisian creative society, but also anonymous servants, models and residents of the neighborhood. In 1917, he began painting a series of about 30 large-scale nudes, which, due to their warm, brilliant colors and sensual, rounded forms, are considered among his best works.
In his private life, he began a live-in relationship with Jeanne Hébuterne in 1917. The couple lived on the Côte d’Azur with their daughter born in November 1918. The artist suffered from various illnesses throughout his life, including pleurisy and typhus, which ended his life in January In 1920, Hébuterne jumped from a window two days later, killing herself and their unborn child.
For many years, the tragic background of Modigliani’s life overshadowed critical assessments of his art. He is still considered one of the most outstanding and unique artists of his generation. Filming on Johnny Depp’s next film is scheduled to begin in Europe in 2023. The cast of the film has not yet been announced.
On the professional front, Depp is currently filming Mawenn’s historical drama Jeanne du Barry, in which he plays King Louis XV. Filming began on July 26 and will be filmed in several locations across Paris, including Versailles and other districts. Johnny Depp recently won a high-profile defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, based on an op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post in 2018.
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