Books That Inspired Johnny's Films http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/forums/42 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:54:20 GMT Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:03:57 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/forums/42 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1831/t/-Alice-s-Adventures-in-Wonderland-by-Lewis-Carroll.html "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and it's follow-up story "Alice Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll with illustrations by John Tenniel.

I haven't read these stories since I was a little girl, and now that Johnny is involved in Tim's film project, it's about time to go back and refresh my memory of these classic stories. I'm not sure if Tim's version will be about one book or the other, or... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1831 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:57:36 GMT <![CDATA[ "Blow" by Bruce Porter ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1784/t/-Blow-by-Bruce-Porter.html From Kirkus Reviews
The up-your-nose, in-your-face life of George Jung, the high-school football star from small-town USA who became the American linchpin of the Colombian cocaine connection. Relying on extensive interviews with Jung and other key figures, Porter (Journalism/Brooklyn College) recounts a sleigh- ride-to-hell story of how 60's hippie innocence turned into 80's megadepravity. Porter dwells too long on Jung's unexceptional childhood (poor grades,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1784 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:07:15 GMT <![CDATA[ "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1777/t/-quot-The-Legend-of-Sleepy-Hollow-quot-by-Washington-Irving.html From Wikipedia.com:

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1777 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:26:07 GMT <![CDATA[ "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1774/t/-Fear-Loathing-in-Las-Vegas-by-Hunter-S-Thompson.html

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a novel by Hunter S. Thompson, illustrated by Ralph Steadman. The... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1774 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:34:23 GMT <![CDATA[ "The Rum Diary" by Hunter S. Thompson ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1738/t/-quot-The-Rum-Diary-quot-by-Hunter-S-Thompson.html From Wikipedia.com:

The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson that was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998.

The story involves a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1738 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:21:39 GMT <![CDATA[ "Public Enemies" by Bryan Burrough ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1735/t/-quot-Public-Enemies-quot-by-Bryan-Burrough.html Inspired the movie Public Enemies in which Johnny stars as John Dillinger.

From Publishers Weekly
Burrough, an award-winning financial journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondent, best known for Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, switches gears to produce the definitive account of the 1930s crime wave... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1735 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:33:16 GMT <![CDATA[ "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1733/t/-quot-Chocolat-quot-by-Joanne-Harris.html Inspired the movie Chocolat released in 2000. Johnny played Roux, a river gypsy.

Amazon.com Review
Vianne Rocher and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk, arrive in the small village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes--"a blip on the fast road between Toulouse and Bourdeaux"--in February, during the carnival. Three days later, Vianne opens a luxuriant chocolate shop crammed with the most tempting of confections and offering a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1733 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:27:06 GMT <![CDATA[ "Rex Mundi Volume 1: The Guardian of the Temple" by Nelson & Johnson ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1732/t/-quot-Rex-Mundi-Volume-1--Guardian---Temple-quot--Nelson-amp.html Authors: Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson
A series of graphic novels
Optioned by Infinitum Nihil.

From Darkhorse.com:

A quest for the Holy Grail unlike any you've ever seen begins here--in a world where the American Civil War ended in a stalemate, the Catholic Church controls Europe, and sorcery determines political power!

When a medieval scroll disappears from a Paris church, Doctor... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1732 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:25:22 GMT <![CDATA[ "Rex Mundi Volume 2: The River Underground" by A.Nelson & E.Johnson ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1731/t/-quot-Rex-Mundi-Volume-2--River-Underground-quot---Nelson-am.html Authors: Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson
A series of graphic novels
Optioned by Infinitum Nihil

From Forbidden Planet International:

The most influential clandestine society in the history of the world is uncovered, a powerful man is murdered, and a mysterious ally appears with a thousand-year-old message as Doctor Julien Saunière continues his hunt for the Holy Grail! Forget Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, this is far more interesting.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1731 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:23:56 GMT <![CDATA[ "Rex Mundi Volume 3: The Lost Kings" by A.Nelson & E. Johnson ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1730/t/-quot-Rex-Mundi-Volume-3--Lost-Kings-quot---Nelson-amp-E-Joh.html Optioned by Infinitum Nihil

From Forbidden Planet International:

In a Paris where magic is real and the Catholic Church never lost its political power, one man's quest to solve a murder may lead him to the Holy Grail itself!

Doctor Julien Saunière continues his investigation into the theft of a mysterious medieval scroll,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1730 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:22:17 GMT <![CDATA[ "Sasha's Story" by Alan Cowell ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1729/t/-quot-Sasha-39-s-Story-quot-by-Alan-Cowell.html This book has not been released yet and is still being written.
Optioned by Infinitum Nihil

Depp Making Russian Spy Drama

Warners picks up rights to Litvinenko tome.

by feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1729 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:20:35 GMT <![CDATA[ "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1728/t/-quot-The-Invention-of-Hugo-Cabret-quot-by-Brian-Selznick.html Recently optioned by Infinitum Nihil.

From Scholastic.com:
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1728 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:19:03 GMT <![CDATA[ "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1727/t/-quot-Shantaram-quot-by-Gregory-David-Roberts.html Optioned by Infinitum Nihil. Production delayed.

Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram site: http://www.shantaram.com/

From ReviewsOfBooks.com:
Shantaram is the fictionalized... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1727 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:17:44 GMT <![CDATA[ "The People's Act of Love" by James Meek ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1726/t/-quot-The-People-39-s-Act-of-Love-quot-by-James-Meek.html Optioned by Infinitum Nihil

From ReviewOfBooks.com:
The People's Act of Love is set in Yazyk, a remote Siberian village, in 1919. It is a place that contains a marooned legion of Czechoslovak troops and a group of skoptsy, men who've castrated themselves in an attempt to make themselves closer to God. The Czechoslovakians are led by a madman, and his troops, with their own atrocities haunting them, just want to go home. Led by the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1726 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:16:33 GMT <![CDATA[ "A Long Way Down" by Nick Hornby ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1725/t/-quot-A-Long-Way-Down-quot-by-Nick-Hornby.html Optioned by Infinitum Nihil

From ReviewOfBooks.com:
At the beginning of A Long Way Down, four people gather on a tower block roof nicknamed Toppers House. They've each come to jump to their death, but find that without being alone, none of them are able to complete the act of suicide. The novel is told from the perpective of each of the four. Jess is the daughter of a government minister mourning a sibling's death and rebelling... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1725 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:15:12 GMT <![CDATA[ "Inamorata" by Joseph Gangemi ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1724/t/-quot-Inamorata-quot-by-Joseph-Gangemi.html Optioned by Infinitum Nihil.

From BookBrowse.com:

From the Jacket... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1724 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:14:08 GMT <![CDATA[ "I, Fatty" by Jerry Stahl ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1723/t/-quot-I-Fatty-quot-by-Jerry-Stahl.html First book optioned by Infinitum Nihil

From Publishers Weekly
Dedicated as ever to exploring life's dark and deviant sides, Stahl shows his heart in this sad, wild, uproarious faux memoir of silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Presented as if told to Fatty's butler-who wouldn't dispense his employer's heroin unless he coughed up the dirt-the book hews closely to the undisputed facts of Arbuckle's life.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1723 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:13:03 GMT <![CDATA[ "Happy Days" by Laurent Graff ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1722/t/-quot-Happy-Days-quot-by-Laurent-Graff.html Optioned by Infinitum Nihil

From Publishers Weekly
"I wanted to let myself drift gently on the surface of life, floating on my back until I wound up flat on my back six feet under." So reveals the narrator of this curious, rather cold little novella, a winner of the Prix Millepages and Graff's first book to be published in English. At 35, in perfect health, Antoine decides to spend the rest of his life at the Happy Days... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1722 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:11:48 GMT <![CDATA[ "The Affected Provincial's Companion" by Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1721/t/-quot--Affected-Provincial-39-s-Companion-quot--Lord-Breaulo.html Optioned by Infinitum Nihil


From http://www.lordwhimsy.com/companion/index.html
OVERVIEW:

In his attempt to live as beautifully as his modest means will... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1721 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:10:43 GMT <![CDATA[ "Caliber - First Canon of Justice" by Sam Sarkar ]]> http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1720/t/-quot-Caliber-First-Canon-of-Justice-quot-by-Sam-Sarkar.html Optioned by Infinitum Nihil.

Book series written by Sam Sarkar, friend of Johnny's and Director of Development at Infinitum Nihil. Beautiful artwork!

This site features the various comics in the Caliber series:
feeds@yuku.com (Deppraved) http://johnnydepp82989.yuku.com/topic/1720 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:09:32 GMT