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Hollywood’s leading ladies line up to marry Depp’s Thin Man

It seems Hollywood’s finest actresses are in the running to star opposite Johnny Depp in Rob Marshall‘s The Thin Man, Deadline reports. Depp will star as former private eye and current drunk Nick Charles.  Though no one has yet been offered the part of Nick’s wife Nora, here is the list of ladies meeting with Marshall next […]

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Johnny Depp rebooting The Thin Man

Notorious detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammet, the man who pretty much invented the ‘hard-boiled’ genre, has influenced generations of writers including Raymond Chandler and William Burroughs. While The Maltese Falcon might be one of Hammett’s more recognisable titles, his 1934 novel The Thin Man, which told the story of an alcoholic ex-detective, enjoyed great commercial success […]

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