Johnny Depp Surprises Comic-Con Attendees on Streets of San Diego
If you appeared intently among the many cosplayers strolling the streets of San Diego this afternoon, you may need discovered a well-recognized face hidden beneath outdated age make-up.
Johnny Depp appeared as Ebenezer Scrooge, the traditional Charles Dickens character he performs in his Hollywood comeback car, Ebenezer. Appropriately, it passed off in entrance of the Gaslamp quarter store Scrooge and Marley.
His look was not introduced forward of time, and the film has no panel at Comic-Con. Still, by the point he confirmed up, followers had gathered, apparently having gotten wind that one thing may occur.
Depp was final at Comic-Con in July 2018, when he confirmed up in Hall H because the titular villain in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Two years later, Warner Bros. asked Depp to resign from the franchise after he misplaced a court docket case regarding his acrimonious cut up from ex-wife Amber Heard. In the years since he has largely been absent from Hollywood, though he has starred in indie and worldwide productions.
That is not the case, with Paramount’s Ebenezer arriving on Nov. 13. That might be adopted by one other studio film, Lionsgate’s Day Drinkerdue out in 2027. His San Diego look comes after he first confirmed of Ebenezer in April at CinemaCon.
x filmmaker Ti West directs Ebenezerwhich additionally stars Andrea Riseborough because the Ghost of Christmas Past, Tramell Tillman because the Ghost of Christmas Present, Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley and Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit.
Stars are identified for hiding in plain sight at Comic-Con, with Bryan Cranston (carrying a Walter White masks), Jack Black (dressed as a Stormtrooper) and Henry Cavill (sporting a Guy Fawkes masks) all strolling round incognito on the conference in years previous.
