Johnny Depp has signed up to play quirky McAfee antivirus creator John McAfee in the darkly comedic biopic King of the Jungle.
If the old adage “An actor is only as good as his script” holds up, though, then things are looking up for Depp with King of the Jungle.
According to Variety, Depp will be reateaming with Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for the dark comedy, which will be co-directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.
The film will also follow a Wired magazine investigator, who, according to the production, “accepts what he thinks is a run-of-the-mill assignment to interview McAfee, but once he arrives in Belize, he finds himself pulled into McAfee’s escalating paranoia, slippery reality, and murder.”