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.

It appears that Johnny Depp is “confirmed” as playing the Mad Hatter in Disney’s 3D version of Wonderland. This was translated from MSN Latin America:

“Actor Johnny Depp was chosen to play “Mad Hatter” in Tim Burton’s version of “Alice in Wonderland”. Burton was hired by Disney studios to make the 3D version if Lewis Carrol’s classic. Depp is the second confirmed cast member. Australian Mia Wasikowska will play Alice.”

Now even though The Dark Knight has just emerged (and doing quite well) rumors are flying as to who will play the villians in the next feature. So Far previous Catwoman Julie Newmar has said that Angelina Jolie should be Catwoman, Philip Seymour Hoffman as the Penguin, and Johnny Depp should be the Riddler.

An earlier rumor I heard is that Nolan will steer clear of the Penguin and Catwoman (and I hope he does). The Penguin seems a bit far fetched in this series and Catwoman…could be complicated. Plus I don’t see Jolie as a Catwoman. Although I can see Depp as Riddler. However, in the Dark Knight, the Accountant/Lawyer for Wayne Enterprises (who was going to go public with Batman’s identity) name was Mr. Reese (mysteries). If this is true I think they should stick with that actor to play the Riddler. But it is still way to early to start worrying about the next film.