The word during the Sundance film festival was that Tom DiCillo‘s narration was a little overbearing — it was this negative buzz that made me eventually lose interest in catching the documentary film as scheduled and perhaps this is part of the motivation behind DiCillo picking Johnny Depp to do some of the same.
When You’re Strange is currently playing at the Berlin Film Festival, and at this point I’m not sure whether it will be an entirely new narration or just a re-recording with Depp. The actor last voiced some excerpts from the work of his dearly departed pal Hunter Thompson for Alex Gibney’s docu Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter Thompson.
The dopcu enters the dark and dangerous world of one of America’s most influential bands using only footage shot between 1966 and 1971.