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According to Wire Image's event listing an LA premiere is schedule for 14 February
Premiere Of Paramount Pictures' "Rango" - Red Carpet
02/14/2011 -
Los Angeles, CA United States
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Johnny Depp Talks Playing a Lizard, His Sex-Symbol Status, and Gets a Visit From Justin Bieber at the Rango Press Day
by Lindsay Miller
Johnny Depp got lots of laughs at the press conference for his new movie Rango in LA yesterday. The actor was joined by his costars, Abigail Breslin and Isla Fisher, as well as director Gore Verbinski at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. Johnny plays the movie's title character, a pet lizard who is forced to save the day after a lie gets him in over his head. Johnny admitted that his own kids aren't all that interested in his career, and are far more into Family Guy and Justin Bieber. It turned out that Justin happened to be in the hotel, heard that Johnny mentioned him, and dropped by to say what a huge fan he is in the middle of the press conference! Johnny joked, "What am I going to tell my daughter?" Johnny, who was as gracious and funny as you might expect, also talked about tackling the challenge of playing a reptile and the reason he enjoys making movies for children. He said:
•On why he enjoys making kids' movies: "I think kids, in general, as an audience, are the way forward because they’re not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It’s a very pure sort of response to the work, and the great luck that I had, for example before Pirates [of the Caribbean], I had a daughter. And for about four years, all I watched was cartoons. Just cartoons. And I realized at that point the parameters were far away from what we do in sort of normal, everyday movies. You can get away with a lot more. They accept a lot more and they buy it, because they’re free. So for me that was everything in terms of coming up with what Captain Jack would be. I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you their honest opinion. They tell the truth."
•On how his own children felt about Rango: "They actually call me the Lizard King, my children, they do. I force them to address me like that. [laughs] It was an odd sort of thing. 'Where you going daddy?' I gotta go to work. 'Well, what are you doing?' Well, I’m playing a lizard. You drop your kids off at school and give them a kiss, and now I gotta go be a lizard. The things I’ve done that my kids are sort of privy to — Willy Wonka — it doesn’t register. They’re far more interested in Family Guy or Justin Bieber. [Someone calls out, 'Are you a Belieber?'] Belieber? I’ve actually never heard that one, and that is my favorite. And you know what? Yes, I am a Belieber. And I shall remain so. "
•On how he feels about his sex-symbol status: "Attention is a strange sort of being anyway. If someone appreciates your work, it’s always nice if someone appreciates your work. I’ve never quite understood the other bits, where somehow you’ve been voted some thing for a magazine, and it’s a complete mystery to me. I wake up and I have to look at that head when I brush my teeth every morning and it’s weird, and it’s unpleasant at times, so I don’t know about the attention."
•On what Jack Sparrow has in common with Rango: "I don’t know, I’ve always had an affinity for lizards. I’ve always felt close to them. Feeling somewhat reptilian myself at times. Oddly, I think, Gore might even disagree, but I feel like when we were doing Pirates 1,2,3, at times, when Jack Sparrow had to run, it was this very specific run I wanted. I’d seen this footage of a lizard running across the water and it was the strangest thing I’d ever seen. So whenever we were in that situation, [I'd] get in touch with the lizard. So I actually think that Rango was somehow planted in Gore's brain from that lizard run. When he actually called me and said, "I want you to play a lizard,' I said, 'God, I’m halfway there.'
•On his own experience with lying:"I actually tell lies for a living. That’s what acting is, really! I felt, having kids, that I had horrific guilt for many years paying along with the Santa Clause thing, waiting for that moment to arrive. Because you’re never going to bring it up them. They’re going to go…'Hey, you’ve been telling me a lie for my entire life. What are you prepared to do about it?' So yeah, I had horrific guilt and we’re now just on the outskirts of that, so I feel okay. These are lies that society tells you you have to keep these lies going, these myths. So I felt guilty about it. I still do.
•On whether he likes making animated films vs. live action: "We’re lazy—at least I am. I’d rather just sit in front of the microphone and do the thing. However, the process that Gore created, this sort of atmosphere that was really, truly ludicrous, just ridiculous. It was like regional theater at its worst. And somehow...[it's] emotion capture. Certain gestures, body language, movements, something you might have done with your eyes…these animators took it and put in there. It was very strange. For Harry Dean Stanton to walk up to me one afternoon…he walks up to me and says, 'This is a weird gig, man.' And I went, 'Yeah.' He had just started and I said, 'Just wait.'"
•On how he developed Rango's voice "Early on, some of the talks that Gore and I had about the character—talk about two grown men, middle-aged men, discussing the possibility of one of them being lizard. So it starts off on a really surreal note anyway. Finding the voice or finding the character—we talked about when, people in life, they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie…you always notice their voice goes high…that’s kind of where it came from. You imagined the character to be just really like a nervous wreck."
Rango Super Bowl Spot
Johnny Depp's "Rango" Super Bowl TV Spot
Posted: February 4th, 2011 by WorstPreviews.com Staff
Johnny Depps Rango Super Bowl TV Spot
Paramount Pictures has unveiled the Super Bowl TV spot for their animated "Rango" comedy, voiced by Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Ray Winstone and Timothy Olyphant. Check it out below.
Plot: A chameleon (Depp) that aspires to be a hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.
The new movie is directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) and is set to hit theaters on March 4th.
Trailers!
The official Movie site is open:Rango
From MTV
Johnny Depp, His ‘Pirates’ Director, And The Secret Movie You’ll Never See
Published by Larry Carroll on Monday, March 23, 2009 at 11:06 am.Johnny DeppThe good news is that Johnny Depp has been in town lately, once again stepping in front of the camera for his “Pirates of the Caribbean” director as they collaborate on a brand-new blockbuster. The bad news? You’ll most likely never see it.
“Gore Verbinski, the guy who directed all the ‘Pirates’ movies, is doing an animated film,” revealed “Office Space” star Stephen Root recently, tipping us off on the top-secret project. “But he wanted everyone to come in and shoot the film.”
Wait a minute: “Shoot” an animated film? Yep, you read that right.
“All of us played animals,” Root said of the head-scratching project. “Johnny Depp played a lizard, Isla Fisher played a lizard, I played a drunk rabbit and a banker owl.”
“We actually rented a soundstage on the Universal lot and shot the whole film, 8 pages a day,” Root said of the movie, which had Depp running around a vacant stage, pretending he had bug-eyes and green scales.
“We used no makeup, but some costumes and some sketch scenery and props,” he continued. “We’d shoot a scene, then go over to another part of the stage and record the lines clean for the animation. We’ll continue to do that for the next two years. It was interesting, because we were filming an animated movie.”
This unprecedented process will eventually yield “Rango,” a March 2011 film about a household pet convinced he’s a cowboy.
“It’s a Western in the sense that these animals are in a desert town, and the story takes place in an Arizona desert town,” Root explained of the film. “It’s now, but once you’re out in the desert it might as well be 1850. I play the drunk rabbit Doc, and Mr. Merrymac the Owl Banker. I also do a porcupine, a minor character. But that was the fun part about doing it with Gore – we’d get to the porcupine and he’d say “There’s a character with three lines, who’d be good at that? You!”
“Obviously, his films have made a couple of bucks, so they gave him the leeway to do this,” Root explained of Verbisnki’s unusual shoot. “Gore wanted to see our movements, our expressions, what camera angles he wants [the animators] to use…It was huge that Johnny would come in and do this for him.”
“It was fun. Everybody played the script, so it was pretty contained, but there was some improv-ing going on,” explained Root, who stars in this week’s new film “Bob Funk” with Rachael Leigh Cook. “I hope Gore got a lot out of it. I guess we’ll see later on in the process.”
Although Root – a longtime veteran of “King of the Hill” — is accustomed to altering his voice for cartoon characters, he revealed that Depp’s lizard Rango will retain the star’s familiar tones. “Johnny played it pretty straight, but with the drawl you’d expect from a Western lizard,” he explained. “None of us had ever heard of anything like [this shoot], which is why we thought it would be tremendous fun to do.”
In a few years, we’ll see whether the “Rango” animators were helped by Depp and the others pretending they were four-legged creatures. “I just hope some of this makes it into the DVD afterwards,” Root laughed, remembering the shoot. “Seeing Johnny Depp and me on workhorses with saddles on them, pretending we’re on real horses? That’s pretty funny stuff.”
