Pirates of the Caribbean Actor Johnny Depp Will Produce and Potentially Star in English Adaptation of The Master and Margarita

Fresh from receiving a customized portion of artwork showing his fan-favorite quality Captain Jack Sparrow successful the benignant of One Piece drawn by the anime's creator, Pirates of the Caribbean histrion Johnny Depp is acceptable to nutrient and perchance prima successful an English-language adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s caller The Master and Margarita.

The movie does not presently person a manager attached, but volition beryllium produced by Depp’s IN.2 Film alongside producers from Jeanne du Barry, the 2023 movie helium starred in. The task was announced astatine Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival and is expected to spell into accumulation successful precocious 2026, according to Variety.

This is the astir caller output successful the collaboration betwixt Depp and shaper Svetlana Dali, who volition enactment alongside Grace Loh connected this project. Dali has enforcement produced the Depp-starring movie World Vision, Jeanne du Barry, and his directorial effort Modi: Three Days connected the Wing of Madness.

An authoritative synopsis for the film, which is based connected Bulgakov’s posthumous caller published successful the 1960s, reads: “Set betwixt 1930s Moscow, wherever the devil returns with his talking feline to origin havoc amongst its corrupt citizens, and Jerusalem during the clip of Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita tells a fantastical, satirical communicative of love, creator state and the eternal conflict of bully versus evil."

It continues: “A 3rd intertwined communicative follows a struggling writer and his lover, Margarita, who is consenting to bash thing to prevention him from the totalitarian system. What follows is simply a darkly comic, wildly imaginative communicative of inexhaustible energy, philosophical depth, and spiritual rebellion — a enactment that remains ferociously applicable contiguous and a timeless reminder of art’s powerfulness to challenge, illuminate and endure.”

Casting volition beryllium announced astatine a aboriginal date, specifically whether oregon not Depp volition really prima successful the project. As acold arsenic an expected merchandise date, determination isn’t immoderate quality determination conscionable yet, but it appears to beryllium sometime successful 2027.

Johnny Depp astatine the property league for A Bunch Of Stuff - Tokyo connected November 27, 2025 successful Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Jun Sato/WireImage.

After a fig of years distant from the spotlight pursuing his high-profile ineligible issues with erstwhile woman Amber Heard, Depp has been linked to a drawstring of projects arsenic the histrion seeks a vocation comeback. In October, it was reported that Depp would play Ebenezer Scrooge successful a caller adaptation of Charles Dickens' beloved A Christmas Carol for Paramount Pictures, owed to merchandise connected November 13, 2026.

Assuming everything goes arsenic planned, Depp's relation arsenic Scrooge volition beryllium his archetypal large booking since 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Depp has besides said he's moving connected creating the quality of Hyde for a caller graphic caller with Ridley Scott, and volition adjacent beryllium seen successful cinemas alongside Penélope Cruz successful Lionsgate’s American enactment thriller Day Drinker, which carries a 2026 merchandise date.

But, of course, it's Depp's iconic relation arsenic Captain Jack Sparrow successful Pirates of the Caribbean which fans are astir keen to whether the histrion volition reprise. And, arsenic long-gestating plans for a sixth introduction successful the swashbuckling blockbuster bid yet statesman to materialize, there's caller signs that Depp could return.

Back successful August, shaper Jerry Bruckheimer revealed helium had spoken to Depp astir returning arsenic Jack Sparrow successful Pirates of the Caribbean 6 — and it sounded similar the histrion was interested. "If helium likes the mode the part's written, I deliberation helium would bash it," Bruckheimer said. "It's each astir what's connected the page, arsenic we each know."

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.