Terry Gilliam told Variety at the Red Sea Film Festival Sunday that he wants Johnny Depp to play Satan in his new film 'Carnival at the End of Days.'

.... As for the new film, it is being co-written with performer, theater-maker, writer and musician Christopher Brett Bailey, whose relative youth is an asset to Gilliam “because as you get older the world becomes more foreign to you.” The story is as wild as you’d expect from the creator of “12 Monkeys” and “Brazil.”

“This is a simple tale of God wiping out humanity for fucking up his beautiful garden Earth,” Gilliam said. “There’s only one character who’s trying to save humanity and that’s Satan, because without humanity he’s lost his job and he’s an eternal character and so to live without a job is terrible. So he finds some young people and he tries to convince God that these young people are the new Adam and Eve. God still gets to wipe out humanity. It’s a comedy.”