00:00I'm the one where I turn into the sky
00:04I'm the one where you are in the world right now.
00:10It's time to wake up, because here from Cannes,
00:13we've got a ton of casting news coming your way.
00:15First up, Johnny Depp.
00:20The Hollywood Reporter's Rebecca Ford reports
00:21that Depp will star in Kane of the Jungle.
00:24All right, we all know that Brian the Lion here
00:25is actually the Kane of the Jungle.
00:27But I'll let Depp have the title, just for a little bit.
00:32I'm standing over there with him.
00:35Depp's Kane of the Jungle will be a dark comedy
00:38based on the true story of John McAfee,
00:40the creator of the McAfee antivirus software.
00:42The project is an adaptation of a Wired article by Joshua Davis.
00:46Says Ford, the article John McAfee's last stand
00:49followed McAfee, who cashed in his fortune,
00:52left civilization, and moved to the jungle in Belize.
00:55There, he set up a Colonel Kurtz-like compound
00:58of guns, sex, and madness.
01:01Sounds very Johnny Depp.
01:04Oh, bugger.
01:05Next up, THR's Patrick Bruschi broke exclusively
01:08that Alicia Vikander will lead the voice cast
01:11in Moomins in the Winter Wonderland.
01:13The Swedish actor said about the film,
01:15Growing up, Moomins was my favorite childhood book.
01:17And now, I can be a part of the Moomins family.
01:20Also in the hottest castings out of Cannes
01:23is Robert Pattinson starring in The Souvenir,
01:25the two-part film executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
01:29The film is set in the 80s
01:31and centers on a young film student
01:32who was involved in her first serious love affair
01:35with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
01:38Robert Pattinson is actually here in Cannes
01:41for the Ben and Joshua Safdie film, Good Time,
01:43which is in competition for the Palme d'Or.
01:45For more on these castings and all things Cannes,
01:48go to THR.com slash Cannes.
01:50Also, let me know in the comments
01:52who you think should play me in my biopic,
01:54Brian the Lion.
01:55I swear it's coming.
01:57Until then, for The Hollywood Reporter News,
01:59I'm Brian Perica.
02:00This episode of The Hollywood Reporter News
02:07is brought to you by American Airlines,
02:09Hollywood's favorite airline.
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