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Casting Couch: Depp 'Toons Up

E! Online - 10th Sep 2008

Gore Verbinski: The Hollywood hunk is reteaming with Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski for Rango, a feature-length CGI 'toon about household pets. Depp will voice the lead critter, who goes an adventure of self-discovery, according to Variety. Jeez, our cat just spends the day licking himself. Paramount will finance and distribute Rango, which is slated to begin production in January for a March 2011 release. Depp recently wrapped two pictures, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, filling in for the late Heath Ledger, and Michael Mann's period gangster flick Public Enemies, playing legendary bank heister John

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