Johnny Depp To Tell Fatty Arbuckle Story

Johnny Depp took on a new controversial project: the story of disgraced actor Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. Depp purchased the rights to the most notorious sex scandal in Hollywood history, hoping to bring it to the big screen.
At a raucous, three-day party in 1921, a young starlet became severely ill and died four days later. Newspapers went wild with the story: popular silent-screen comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle had killed Virginia Rappe with his weight while savagely raping her. Though the newspapers of the day reveled in the gory, rumored details, juries found little evidence that Arbuckle was in any way connected with her death.
Despite the highly publicized trial and his acquittal, Arbuckle never recovered from the scandal; the public reveled in repeating salacious gossip regarding the case, believing the actor was guilty. Theaters stopped showing his films, and the film industry blacklisted Arbuckle.

Depp wants to tell the entire Arbuckle story, including the gory details of Rappe’s death and the infamous trial that followed.
Depp confided in BBC Radio London DJ Jono Coleman that he had set his sights on the lead role.

Coleman says, "Johnny recommended I read I, Fatty, Arbuckle's fictional memoirs by Jerry Stahl. He told me he had bought the rights and I got the feeling he'd like to play the title role. But he hasn't got the figure."

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