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Before becoming the world-famous Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp also tried his hands as a director with The Brave, which was never released for audiences. As the movie did not reach the theatres in the US, it was released at International Film Festivals. Not many would know, but the 1997 film directed by and starring Depp was a huge financial undertaking and flop but a dark hidden gem in his career.
The movie cost him a financial loss of around $2 Million as he agreed to pay for more than a quarter of the film’s budget out of his own pocket. His career took a different turn in the mid-90s as he was asked to take a seat behind the camera in the director’s chair to try his hand at filmmaking for the movie The Brave. However, the reaction was not exactly what he’d hoped for.
Johnny Depp decided not to release the release as the reception was very poor. The box office bomb also featured some of the big names like Marlon Brando, Marshall Bell, Elpida Carrillo, and Luis Guzmán. However, sharing about the movie’s hostile reception at the Cannes Film Festival, the devastated Depp once said, “They just f*cking destroyed us,” reported by The Things
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