Can Johnny really emerge from the Depps?

That’s what everybody was asking this week when it was reported that tarnished actor Johnny Depp is in final negotiations to star in Paramount’s new “Christmas Carol” film as Ebeneezer Scrooge, a bitter old crank.

Well, you’ve gotta admit the casting is bang-on. 4

The job would mark Depp’s first major studio movie in seven years — an unforgiving eternity in Hollywood.

A significant chunk of teens probably have no idea who this guy is.

Depp’s last big gig was “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” the second chapter of Warner Bros.’ lame “Harry Potter” spin-off series that he was unceremoniously fired from after he lost a 2020 libel case against Britain’s Sun newspaper, which called him a “wife-beater” in a story.

That blow came

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