Depp to return to Australia By Garry Maddox Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
The battle over his dogs has not stopped Johnny Depp signing up to a new film that will be shot in Australia. 
The Pirates of the Caribbean star has joined Sydney animation studio Animal Logic for an adaptation of Neil Gaiman children's novel Fortunately, The Milk, about a father who goes to buy milk for his children's breakfast cereal only to be abducted by aliens, thrown into a time vortex, captured by pirates and befriended by a time-travelling dinosaur.
It is being written by Bret McKenzie (The Muppets, Flight of the Conchords) and will be directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim versus the World) as a mix of live action and animation.
With Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil partnering with Animal Logic, the actor will play a role to be determined once the script is ready to shoot. "Johnny really likes the book ... he's such a versatile actor that he could do a number of things on this film," Animal Logic chief executive and producer Zareh Nalbandian said.
Nalbandian believes Depp's run-in with quarantine authorities over wife Amber Heard bringing terriers Boo and Pistol into the country while he shot Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales might not be an issue by the time the film shoots - possibly in 18 months.
"I think it's probably a bit of a sensitive issue right now," he says. "But people forget things over time."
With the case adjourned in a Queensland court until   November 16, Heard faces three charges under the Australian Quarantine Act.