Depp will play Dillinger, and the scene will be shot at the Old Sheriff's House and Jail. No specific dates have been released, but filming will take place from March through June in Chicago, Indiana and Wisconsin.
Dillinger, an Indiana native, escaped the heavily guarded northwestern Indiana jail March 3, 1934, while he awaited trial on charges that he killed Officer William Patrick O'Malley during an East Chicago bank robbery.
He then drove away in Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford. A few months later, federal agents fatally shot him outside a Chicago theater.
Work crews started preparing the red-brick jail for its movie close-up last Monday.
‘‘I wish we could say (the restoration) will be complete, but it'll be mostly the entry and upstairs,'' location scout George Constas said.
The jail's neighbor, the Hall of Justice Bar and Ballroom, will host up to 200 actors, crew members and technicians.
‘‘Hollywood's coming to Crown Point,'' co-owner Philip Struebig said. ‘‘It's going to be a heck of a thing for Crown Point. It will put us back on the map.''
Depp is probably best known for starring roles in the ‘‘Pirates of the Caribbean'' series, ‘‘Finding Neverland'' and ‘‘Edward Scissorhands.''
His co-star in ‘‘Public Enemies'' will be this year's Oscar-winner for best actress, Marion Cotillard, who is playing Dillinger's moll.
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