Depp's character was previously seen only in a glimpse but the cover of EW magazine gives a full frontal look of the baddie.
- Oct 23, 2014
AceShowbiz - The cast of "Into the Woods" graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine this week. Johnny Depp is seen for the first time as the big bad Wolf in the musical fantasy film, sharing the cover with young actress Lilla Crawford who portrays Red Riding Hood.
The other covers see James Corden and Emily Blunt as the Baker and his wife, Meryl Streep and Mackenzie Mauzy as the Witch and Rapunzel, and Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine as Cinderella and her Prince. EW also debuts concept arts and behind the scene photos in its latest issue.
Depp's Wolf resembles a businessman, wearing a suit complete with a tie and a hat. He even has a chain wallet. "[Director] Rob Marshall wasn't afraid to let me take the role to a level of heightened reality, almost cartoon-like, where one second the Wolf is here, and then, boom, suddenly he's over there," Depp tells the magazine.
Meanwhile, Streep sports glorious blue hair as the villain. "I've been offered many witches over the years, starting when I was 40, and I said no to all of them," says Streep of how she got into the film. "But this was really fun because it played with the notion of what witches mean. They represented age and ugliness and scary powers we don't understand. So here's my opportunity to say, here's what you wish for when you're getting old."
"Into the Woods" centers on a baker and his wife who desperately want children and strike a deal with a witch. She promises to give them a child if they can bring her the cape of Little Red Riding Hood, the milky-white cow of Jack (of beanstalk fame), the slipper of Cinderella and some of Rapunzel's golden hair. In order to do so, the baker must travel into the dark and mysterious woods and battle a Giant who threatens to destroy the entire village.
"I didn't want this to look like a cartoon world," Marshall tells the magazine. "It's not sunny, sunny, sunny - we wanted a sense of danger." Despite the dark tone, the film will be released as PG in theaters on December 25.
