Public Enemies stars Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis and a handful of other familiars in the 1930-esque gangster crime drama.

SYNOPSIS: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

This flick is due July 1, 2009.

From FirstShowing.Net:

Give or take Miami Vice, Michael Mann is usually a very solid director. His next project is one called Public Enemies, about the real story of notorious American gangster John Dillinger and his FBI pursuer Melvin Purvis in the 1930s. Think of it as something like The Untouchables, except set in the 1930′s and told from the side of the bad guys. It’s being described as somewhat like Heat II, which could mean a lot of good things and a lot of bad things (do we really need more sequels?). However you look at it, with the debut of these two new photos from Empire today, I think it shows we don’t we have much to be worried about at all. While they’re fairly simple shots, they look great so far, and we haven’t even seen any footage yet either.

On the left you’ll see Johnny Depp as gangster John Dillinger, nicknamed the “Jackrabbit” for the way he leaped over counters during bank heists. On the right you’ll see Christian Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis, known for capturing more “public enemies” than anyone in history and eventually taking down Dillinger.

This is what McG blogs about the new movie:

We are half way through filming. Our teaser is in theaters and playing before The Dark Knight. You will see that this is a movie inspired by the first films, but is a true new beginning in that it takes place in the future.

From a technical perspective, we have set out to achieve a completely new visual style that hasn’t been seen before. We’re shooting the film on color stock but are using a method inspired by the Oz process which was developed at Technicolor by Mike Zacharia and Bob Olson. Basically we are adding three times as much silver. It creates a surreal texture that is in keeping with the notion of the entire picture – feeling detached from the world we know today.

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