Depp's had a little voice-over experience in the past, lending his tonsils to TV 'toons such as King Of The Hill and Spongebob Squarepants (bet it was for his kids).

But his next animated project will be something a little bigger - a film with Pirates Of The Caribbean director Gore Verbinski called Rango (above), which is being created by Industrial Light & Magic.

Depp will voice a household pet who goes on an adventure to find himself - where he'll face off against Bill Nighy's evil lizard character.

According to Verbinski, ILM is developing technology that "will allow us to capture and translate every aspect of Johnny’s performance, using it to drive the computer-generated character in a way that has yet to be seen in an animated feature."

We'll get to see what he means next year when the trailers start to arrive.

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