Johnny Depp to star in new Wes Anderson film

Johnny Depp is to star in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's follow-up to critical smash Moonrise Kingdom, reports Deadline . With Anderson's Cannes opener having performed admirably at the box office with a return of $40m, the film-maker is moving on to his next project, which he has previously described as "not family friendly". Depp looks likely to join the cast once he has completed shooting The Lone Ranger for Gore Verbinski. Little is known about The Grand Budapest Hotel other than it will be set in Europe and will probably star Owen Wilson. Anderson recently told Slash Film : "I think the next movie I'm doing … I would say it's not very family friendly. I would say I did go from a movie that's, at least theoretically, meant to be made for an audience of children, which was Fantastic Mr Fox, to a movie that is about children whoever the audience is meant to be. So there's at least some continuity between those two." Other actors tipped to appear in the new film include Moonrise Kingdom's Bill Murray and Edward Norton, along with Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe and Angela Lansbury.