Ozzy to play zombie, Depp to play Ozzy?

He has played a pirate, a drug dealer, a gypsy and Jack the Ripper, so who better to play addled Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne than Johnny Depp?

The Pirates of the Caribbean hunk is Ozzy and wife Sharon’s first choice to star in a film based on the famed bat-head biter’s colourful life.