Depp Is Paradis’ AMERICAN LOVER. Director Hallstrom Replaces Alfredson For DANISH

This is actually 2 info but since they have one common ground, might as well just put them under one post. Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are real life lovers for the past 12 years and they have 2 kids. Now they’re about to be lovers on screen as well..

According to Zimbio, Depp and Paradis will star in MY AMERICAN LOVER, to be directed by Lasse Hallstrom who worked with Depp before, helming What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Some of you chick flick fans may have watched Hallstrom’s recent movie, DEAR JOHN.

MY AMERICAN LOVER is the story of French feminist philosopher, writer and theorist Simone de Beauvoir and American novelist Nelson Algren.
“Simone de Beauvoir was a 20th century French writer and philosopher famous for The Second Sex, an analysis of women’s oppression and contemporary feminism and her open relationship with existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. She traveled through Latin America with writer Nelson Algren in 1949.”

Depp had this to say about their roles…“Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho.”
Filming is expected to start in 2011, Obviously because Depp’s got THE TOURIST, PIRATES 4 and possibly DARK SHADOWS all happening this year.
Based on the collection of Beauvoir’s correspondence to Algren, titled A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren, here’s a quick synopsis..

“This engrossing collection is the first publication in America of the 300-plus letters that de Beauvoir wrote to her lover, Algren (The Man with the Golden Arm), between February 1947 and November 1964. At a time when transatlantic phone calls were rare, de Beauvoir used letter-writing to charm her “beloved Chicago man,” to outline her progress on what would become The Second Sex and The Mandarins, and to describe the postwar Parisian intelligentsia surrounding her, Sartre and their monthly, Les Temps Modernes. There is more gossip here than philosophical or political debate: for example, fistfights between Arthur Koestler and Albert Camus, daily death threats to Sartre, “this ridiculous thing which is Truman Capote,” “Jean Genet, the pederast-burglar” and the “cave” hopping of the literati?the less well known of whom are helpfully footnoted. But her detached descriptions of places, events and parties are ultimately more interesting than her often condescending opinions of people and her need to reiterate to Algren how many women are attracted to her. Written in often awkward yet energetically chatty English (“It is not scotch; it is the moving boat which makes my handwriting so shaking.”), de Beauvoir’s letters are both guarded and vulnerable. One frustration here is the lack of Algren’s voice, although there are some brief summaries of letters or pertinent meetings. If those expecting steamy love letters will be disappointed, this one-sided correspondence provides invaluable primary material for scholars of the Paris intelligentsia and while doing so, reveals a woman alternately feisty, catty, proud and unsure.”

The Playlist reported that Lasse Hallstrom has replaced Tomas Alfredson (Let The Right One In), as the new director of THE DANISH GIRL, also based on a true story, this is the sex-change drama stars Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Adapted by writer Lucinda Coxon (Wild Target) from David Ebershoff’s 2000 Viking bestseller. Based on the true story of Danish artists Einar and Gerda Wegener. Their marriage took a sharp left turn after Einar (Kidman) stood in for an female model that Gerda (Paltrow) was set to paint.
When their portraits become wildly popular in 1920s Copenhagen, Gerda encouraged her husband to adopt the female guise. What began as a harmless game led Einer to a metamorphosis into Lili Elbe and landmark 1931 operation that shocked the world and threatened their love.
Greta finally let go when she realized the man she married no longer exists.