Dangerous Turn

Johnny Depp’s road to the big screen in the role of real-life former Boston mob boss-turned-FBI informant Whitey Bulger has been a long one (so long it gave us Mortdecai!) – but it looks like the film is almost there now.

I’m talking about Black Mass.

Directed by Scott (Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart) Cooper, the buzzy film sees Depp disappear into the part, as you can very well see, and Guy Pearce Joel Edgerton playing an FBI agent and Benedict Cumberbatch portraying Whitey’s senator-brother Bill.

Black Mass is scheduled for a Sept. 18 release.

Photo: People.com.