In hindsight, it is onerous to think about anybody aside from Johnny Depp portraying Edward Scissorhands. Each Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise do not feel like they’re sufficient of oddballs to tackle that type of function. With the character’s pasty white pores and skin and jet-black hair, one may virtually see Michael Jackson within the half, but it surely did not work out for one cause or one other. It would not be the final time Jackson set his sights on turning into a real Hollywood participant.
Jackson was certainly one of many actors virtually forged as Spider-Man, even getting a gathering with Stan Lee to debate producing a Spider-Man movie with him within the titular function. Steven Spielberg considered casting Jackson as Peter Pan in “Hook” earlier than the story modified significantly, at which level Jackson was now not . Given Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, it is smart why he would think about that individual function.
Identical to Jackson may join with Peter Pan, Depp related with Edward Scissorhands. Whereas he was initially cagey about pursuing the half, it genuinely spoke to him, as he states within the documentary, “The writing was lovely. The character was lovely. What I suppose [attracted] me emotionally was that Edward was me. It is precisely what I ought to be doing.” The Tim Burton docuseries premiered on the Tribeca Movie Pageant, and may hopefully turn out to be extra readily accessible within the close to future.