With plaudits from his performance as Whitey Bulger in Black Mass still ringing in his ears, Johnny Depp has his eye on another crime thriller. He's in early talks for Triple Frontier, which is finally coming together at Paramount after some years in development.
The film is now progressing with A Most Violent Year's J.C. Chandor directing, but it's been on Depp's radar since an earlier incarnation when Katherine Bigelow was attached. Bigelow's regular collaborator Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) wrote the screenplay.
The title refers to the infamous tri-border between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil: a focal point for organised crime and terrorist activity (the Paraguayan side has no anti-terrorism laws). Depp's Public Enemies director Michael Mann used it as the backdrop for part of his 2006 Miami Vice. There's no synopsis available for Triple Frontier so far, but the IMDb pegs it as an "action adventure" and Variety use the word "smuggling".
Alex Gartner (Warcraft) and Charles Roven (Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice) are among the producers, but despite the long gestation Triple Frontier is still just at its early stages. Depp has yet to officially sign and the rest of the cast and a start date remain un-set for the time being. More news as we get it.