Peter Weir To Direct Depp In 'Shantaram'

Peter Weir has dropped out from the directors chair for Johnny Depps Shantaram , says the Hollywood Reporter. Depp is still expected to star as an Australian heroin addict who escapes a maximum-security prison, reinvents...

Oscar-winning writer Eric Roth has been hired by Warner Bros. to adapt Gregory David Roberts novel Shantaram , says the Hollywood Reporter. The project, which stars actor Johnny Depp, is set in the 1980s and is based...

Johnny Depp is set to star in Warner Bros. Pictures' adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Depp will play the novel's narrator, a young Australian man who escapes from a...