Johnny Depp Makes One Scary Gangster in 'Black Mass' Trailer
 

omg thats johnny depp????? wow!

Here?s the Johnny Depp movie we?ve been waiting for. After a string of misfires in recent years that includes Mortdecai, Transcendence, The Lone Ranger, and Dark Shadows, Depp fans ? and, according to census reports, there are kajillions ? are probably getting a getting a little itchy for the eccentric actor to show and prove again.

And from the looks of the first trailer for Black Mass ? in which Depp plays real-life ruthless gangster Whitey Bulger ? Johnny be good again. Really good. Watch it above.

The first look is framed around a tense dinner table conversation that recalls the best of Joe Pesci?s will-he-or-won?t-he-shoot-that-guy-in-the-face routine from Goodfellas. It?s our introduction to Depp?s balding, blue-eyed, Boston-drawled badass. (The actor is wearing contacts for the part, and as we noted after the first photo hit yesterday, welcomes back that receding hairline he embraced as Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing Las Vegas.) And this is a man you don?t want to cross? or share your secret family recipe with.

Whitey Bulger is one of the most infamous figures in American organized crime, having been indicted on 19 murders, and his story hardly fits the traditional rise-and-fall narrative. After serving as an informant for the FBI, Bulger fled and went into hiding for 16 years. For more than a decade he was listed second on the FBI?s 10 Most Wanted List, after only Osama bin Laden.

While Depp impresses as Bulger, so does the list of actors playing the men tip-toeing around him, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton, Kevin Bacon, Adam Scott, Jesse Plemons, and Peter Sarsgaard. Also appearing are Fifty Shades of Grey breakout Dakota Johnson as Bulger?s main squeeze Lindsey Cyr, and Juno Temple as his ill-fated stepdaughter Deborah Hussey.

Black Mass, directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace), opens Sept. 18. It?s a likely candidate to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival a week earlier.

watch the trailer!!!

Wow. That's Depp? Hell of a scene there, thanks.

nice scene

Gonna have to check that one out for sure.

I think he does some of his best work when he plays real life characters like Hunter S. Thompson, Ed Wood, John Dillinger in Public Enemies, Diego in Blow (based on George Jung and Pablo Escobar) and this looks awesome too.

This reminds me ... Years ago 60 Minutes ran a story about an old alcoholic bum that won a large state lottery. The bum claimed he and Bulger were joint owners of the ticket.

The bum got instant prestig/protection and first class treatment in Bulger owned bars and Bulger got an honest source of income that pissed off law enforcement.

Pretty good story.


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Joe Pistone in Donnie Brasco was good too.

Diego from Blow was based off Carlos Lehder. Here is his old house in Norman Cay, Which he pretty much took over and ran everybody off.
His old house.

What a location!

I know. Looks like an awesome place to live. The video is 5 years old. Seems like somebody would be living there by now.

He had German mercs and a helicopter to run anybody off that showed up.

Does Bandersnatch cumbertwinkle have to be in every movie these days?

I can't stand that pretentious twink.

Seeing him like that makes me realise I need to plan for my retirement - That Elizabeth Hurley pic made me panic as well...

That is incredible... and somehow, he's scary even when he's so-called friendly...

I liked Out of the Furnace. Should be good.

Anything mob related I'll check out. :thumbsup

I've been a fan of Depp's since he was on that 21 jump street show. I watched that growing up. He is one of the best actors in Hollywood.

Looks badas

Damn that was good!

Fingers crossed for this movie.

The Johnny Depp ship has sailed.

:ak47::BangBang::thumbsup