Edgar Wright To Direct Johnny Depp In Neil Gaiman’s Fortunately, The Milk

Looks like we have a major new movie in the works that’s well worth getting excited about.

Superstar Johnny Depp and director Edgar Wright are set to unite on ‘Fortunately, The Milk,’ a big screen adaptation of a children’s story by esteemed fantasy author Neil Gaiman.

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First published in 2014, ‘Fortunately, The Milk’ is described as “a story of time travel and breakfast cereal,” in which a father’s seemingly simple mission to go out and buy some milk results in a bizarre adventure filled with outlandish characters and extraordinary creatures.

To make it even more intriguing, the film is planned to be a live action/animation hybrid.

The Hollywood Reporter tells us the film looks set to be picked up by 20th Century Fox, with Depp and Zareh Nalbandian of animation house Animal Logic producing.

Script duties, meanwhile, go to Bret Mckenzie, actor/writer from TV’s ‘Flight of the Conchords.’

Wright and Depp would seem to have been keen to work together for some time, the two men having previously linked to a big screen take on 1970s supernatural detective TV series ‘Kolchak: The Night Stalker.’

Still, it will likely be some time before ‘Fortunately, The Milk’ reaches screens as Wright is currently in pre-production on ‘Baby Driver,’ his first US-based film since his notorious eleventh-hour withdrawal from Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man.’

Depp, meanwhile, will next be seen in ‘Black Mass,’ opening 27 November. After that he returns as the Mad Hatter in ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass,’ due 27 May 2016; and later he will reprise his signature role of Captain Jack Sparrow in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,’ due 7 July 2017.

Picture Credit: WENN, Harper Collins