McGregor and Paltrow Join Depp in MORTDECAI

Gwyenth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor are in talks to join Johnny Depp in director David Koepp's upcoming film Mortdecai.

Depp is playing Charles Mortdecai, "a debonair art dealer and part time rogue who must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. He also has to juggle angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist."

There's no word on whom Paltrow and McGregor will play in the film, but it seems like there are a lot of fun colorful characters. I imagine McGregor would be a British Mi5 agent, and Paltrow would be the "impossibly leggy wife."

The book was written in the 1970s and it could make for a really cool '70s style thriller. Depp is just coming off The Lone Ranger which wasn't his greatesttest moment, but the movie's failure isn't getting him down. He's still one of the most bankable actors in Hollywood.

Here's the description of the book:

Kyril Bonfiglioli's final novel follows the Hon. Charlie Mortdecai from adventure to misadventure via Jersey and Moscow to a final showdown in a Buckinghamshire bungalow of unparalleled hideousness. Tackling en route an unhealthy sprinkling of well-seasoned academics, a cryptic monk, an aristocratic Chief Constable, and more spies than you could shoehorn into a black stretch limo, Mordecai finds himself embroiled in another mission of international insecurity. Left unfinished at the time of the author's death, the celebrated satirist and parodist Craig Brown supplies the penultimate, plot-resolving chapter.

Via: The Wrap