Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp will be working together once again in Rango, an animated film where Depp will voice a household pet that goes on an adventure to discover its true self (deep stuff).

From Variety:

“Rango” aims to use cutting-edge animation techniques that “will allow us to capture and translate every aspect of Johnny’s performance, using it to drive the computer-generated character in a way that has yet to be seen in an animated feature,” Verbinski said.

Gore will direct Rango, while still developing the game to movie adaptation of Bioshock for Paramount. Depp is set to begin work on Rango in January.

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