A Johnny Depp film and a big-budget musical featuring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have become the latest movies to be hit by Hollywood's writer's strike, it was reported on Tuesday. "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Depp had been due to appear in the Mira Nair-directed "Shantaram," an adaptation of the Gregory David Roberts novel, entertainment industry Daily Variety reported. Cruz and Bardem meanwhile were to have starred with Italian icon Sophia Loren and French actress Marion Cotillard in "Nine," a screen version of the successful musical inspired by Federico Fellini's "8 1/2." However Variety reported that both projects have now been put on hold because scripts for each film had not been completed before the writers' strike got underway earlier this month.
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