Johnny Depp Joins the ‘Sherlock Gnomes’ Cast

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Johnny Depp (Photo © Richard Chavez)

Hot off his starring awards-worthy performance in Black Mass, Johnny Depp has signed to voice the title role in Sherlock Gnomes. The family-friendly, gnome-friendly film is a return to the genre for Depp who previously lent his voice to characters in Rango and Corpse Bride. The Paramount Animation/MGM project is a sequel to 2011’s Gnomeo and Juliet and will bring back the lead voice actors, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt, from that popular animated film to once again provide the voices of Gnomeo and Juliet.


Sherlock Gnomes will be produced by Elton John‘s Rocket Pictures and Kung Fu Panda‘s John Stevenson is on board to direct from a script by Ben Zazove. Elton John, David Furnish, Steve Hamilton-Shaw, and Carolyn Soper are producing. We can expect to see the Gnomeo and Juliet sequel in theaters on January 12, 2018. The original film opened on February 11, 2011 and made $25 million domestically over its opening weekend. The film went on to gross $193 million worldwide before exiting theaters.

The Sherlock Gnomes Plot:

The film takes place after a string of garden gnome disappearances in London, when Gnomeo and Juliet look to legendary detective Sherlock Gnomes to solve the case.