BARABOO - Don't look now, but star actor Johnny Depp could be showing up in the small Wisconsin city of Baraboo if producers settle on a downtown bank to film a crime by Depression-era robber John Dillinger, played by Depp.

Gene Dalhoff of the Baraboo Area Chamber of Commerce says Universal Pictures contacted the group earlier this month.



A representative told him Baraboo is among 20 communities in Wisconsin being scouted as potential filming locations for director Michael Mann's ``Public Enemies.''

Baraboo National Bank CEO Merlin Zitzner says he got a call from a representative of Mann, saying the bank is being considered for filming a robbery. He says the bank and Baraboo's courthouse square have a vintage look that makes them appealing to the filmmakers.

``Public Enemies'' is envisioned as a screen adaptation of Bryan Burrough's book ``Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.'' It describes the FBI's transformation when confronted with crime sprees of Dillinger, Charles Arthur ``Pretty Boy'' Floyd and Lester ``Baby Face Nelson''
Gillis.

Dillinger and his gang pulled off bank robberies across the Midwest and used a northwoods Wisconsin lodge as a hideout.
Dillinger's crime wave ended when he was slain by FBI agents in Chicago in July 1934.

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