Several weeks ago, it was announced that Charlize Theron had dropped out of a film called The Tourist. Within days, Angelina Jolie was mentioned heavily as Charlize’s replacement. Not only that, the studio seemed to be wooing Angelina with promises of a script rewrite to make her character better, and her choice of directors. It’s now pretty certain that Angelina did sign on, with The Lives of Others’ director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck stepping in to helm the project.

Throughout all of the casting whispers, Angelina’s would-be costar seemed pretty certain. Sam Worthington had been attached to the project for months, and it was reported that Angelina was looking forward to working with him (despite the fact that he doesn’t seem that bright). Now it looks like Worthington is out… leaving a casting hole that needs to be filled. Who has the balls to take on Angelina? Reportedly, Johnny Depp is considering it:

The Tourist is quickly shaping up to be the best movie ever. Shortly after it was announced that Angelina Jolie was stepping in to a role vacated by Charlize Theron, talks have begun with Johnny Depp to play her fellow lead.

Depp would play an American tourist who gets wrapped in Jolie’s interpol agent’s web of intrigue and danger as she tries to locate a criminal who is also her former lover.

The actor was pulled in for the role by Graham King whose company GK Films is financing and distributing the film through a deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment. Depp and King have a close relationship and collaborated on The Rum Diary and the animated film Rango.

[From Radar]

I’ve always wanted Angelina and Johnny to work together, but I hoped they would go a more unconventional route and maybe play brother and sister (and yes, I do casting sessions for imaginary films in my mind). I think Johnny and Angelina would be naturals at playing members of the same family, honestly – they’re features are similar enough to make it work physically. But, in The Tourist, they would be playing former (and current?) lovers.

The Hollywood Reporter had a synopsis of The Tourist: “A remake of the French thriller Anthony Zimmer from 2005, Tourist centers on an American tourist who, on behalf of Interpol, goes undercover to entrap a former lover who’s a suspected global criminal. It follows in the long tradition of innocents caught up in shady activities abroad that dates back to Hitchcock (”The Man Who Knew Too Much”), Polanski (”Frantic”) and beyond, and a theme that also has contemporary echoes with “Taken” this past year.” I think Angelina would be playing the lover working with Interpol, while Johnny would be playing the global criminal. Or maybe reverse it. It would work either way, honestly.