Art Market Monitor

Global Coverage ~ Unique Analysis

  • AMMpro
  • AMM Fantasy Collecting Game
  • Podcast
  • Contact Us

World’s Most Unscrupulous Art Dealer, Charlie Mortdecai, Comes to Theaters in Feburary 2015

August 13, 2014 by Marion Maneker

Charlie Mortdecai

The trailer for the February release of Johnny Depp’s version of the classic Charlie Mortdecai mysteries written by Kyril Bonfiglioli borrowing generously from Duveen, Wodehouse and the art trade is out. It’s a mixed bag but decide for yourself:

Johnny Depp’s Mortdecai is a right royal romp of the highest order, with Depp playing an anarchic aristocratic art dealer named Charlie Mortdecai, and Paul Bettany his valet, Jock. Think Jeeves and Wooster, but with more sex, swearing and guns, and you’ve just about got the new trailer for Mortdecai, available at Apple.

[T]he quality of the books (and the characters, and Johnny Depp’s moustache) has attracted some pretty starry stars in the shape of Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Goldblum, Olivia Munn and Ewan McGregor. The director is David Koepp, whose most recent writing credits include Men In Black 3, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Premium Rush (which he wrote and directed). On writing duties in this instance is relative newcomer Eric Aronson.

It’s difficult to judge a film from so little footage – and with such a domineering musical accompaniment – but it looks like the team behind the adaptation have gone gamely for the broader side of things, what with the shotguns to the chest, breast-grabbing mimes and ‘tache comb. Fast Show, eat your heart out.

The Trailer For Johnny Depp’s Mortdecai Romps In   (Empire)

More from Art Market Monitor

  • What's at LIFAFWhat's at LIFAF
  • At Home with Gilbert & GeorgeAt Home with Gilbert & George
  • Sotheby’s Kostalitz Preview VideoSotheby’s Kostalitz Preview Video
  • Indian Antiquities from Subhash Kapoor Case Seized at Christie’s as Asia Week OpensIndian Antiquities from Subhash Kapoor Case Seized at Christie’s as Asia Week Opens
  • Assistant Who Stole Millions in Art From Jasper Johns Sentenced to Prison and Pay RestitutionAssistant Who Stole Millions in Art From Jasper Johns Sentenced to Prison and Pay Restitution
  • ArtBasel Sales, Pt. 1ArtBasel Sales, Pt. 1

Filed Under: General

About Marion Maneker

Want to get Art Market Monitor‘s posts sent to you in our email? Sign up below by clicking on the Subscribe button.

Top Posts

  • Keith Haring’s 1989 Retrospect Comes to Sotheby’s London Prints Sale
  • British Modernists Draw Deep Bidding in Christie's $42 M. London Sales
  • Tony Podesta's Secret Art Buying
  • Four of Picasso's Women Valued at $28m Come to Christie's from Rose-Walters Collection
  • Norman Rockwell's Not Gay. But Is He a Great Artist?
  • $10 M. Picasso Portrait Unseen for Decades to Sell at Bonhams
  • Roy Lichtenstein’s Top Ten Auction Prices
  • How to Chant Like an Auctioneer
  • Christie’s to Sell Its First Fully Digital Work of Art in Test of Emerging Market
  • Collection of Texas Heiress Anne Marion Expected to Fetch $150 M. at Sotheby’s
  • About Us/ Contact
  • Podcast
  • AMMpro
  • Newsletter
  • FAQ

twitterfacebooksoundcloud
Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
California Privacy Rights
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
Advertise on Art Market Monitor