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Christian Bale Is One of Our Public Enemies

Source:  Variety
Christian Bale is set to join Michael Mann's upcoming drama Public Enemies. According to Variety, Johnny Depp has already signed on to play the lead in the film.

Bale is set to play legendary FBI agent Melvin Purvis, famous for hunting down John Dillinger. Depp will play Dillinger in the film.

Public Enemies is being produced by Universal Pictures and will go into production on March 16th.


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Aficionado
January 11th, 2008 2:41pm
Not a big fan of Depp, but Bale? Hell yeah! This sounds like a good movie!
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Space101's Profile
Space101
January 11th, 2008 10:16am
Sounds good to me!
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Comrade's Profile
Comrade
January 11th, 2008 9:45am
SO much hot...overload...KABOOM!
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brew1701
January 11th, 2008 9:38am
how can you not like depp, one of the most diverse actors in the biz
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The Kwisatz Haderach
January 11th, 2008 9:14am
Sounds sweet, always dig Bales' films and most of Depps', with Michael Mann at the helm this should be another kick ass film.
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Rama's SCREEN
January 11th, 2008 8:52am
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
Jet Li and Jackie Chan
Denzel and Russell
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman

and now another dynamic collaboration
Bale and Depp

Way cool!
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ed_wood
January 11th, 2008 6:25am
Two of my favorite actors together, should be great. Also think Mann has not made a bad movie.
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CelluloidDreams
January 11th, 2008 6:24am
Damn. Already I want to see this movie.
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Phatlightning
January 11th, 2008 4:15am
yea, bale really doesn't pick just any movie, only winners.. and i'm a fan of depp's charisma and personality he brings to his movies... should be good, can't wait to hear the entire premise
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CelluloidDreams
January 11th, 2008 4:13am
NOt a fan of Johnny Depp! Never have been, nver will be! But hell yes, as long as Christian Bale is in, I'm there!!
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brew1701
January 11th, 2008 12:25am
now this sounds great, depp, bale and mann, awesome combo! An they both pick quality projects too, not just anything that comes along
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