Depp to star as The Ginger Man

Johnny Depp is reputedly to play the hero in the first ever film version of JP Donleavy's iconic novel The Ginger Man.

Rated one of the 100 best books of the 20th century and never out of print since its publication in 1955, it recounts the ribald adventures of Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, an Irish American law student at Trinity College. Due to its content Donleavy had great difficulty finding a publisher.

When it ...