Ichabod Crane Central School District in 1809, where he wrote the satire, 'A History of New York'. Later, he wrote the short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which take place regionally. The Kinderhook school district is named "Ichabod Crane". for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin. Irving and Merwin became friends in Kinderhook, where they boarded together at the Van Ness home, and the two friends continued a pen-pal correspondence for thirty years. The Columbia County Historical Society (New York) owns the original Kinderhook Schoolhouse named after the Irving character
Johnny Depp (returning as Will Turner). Depp co-starred in the mystery drama "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017), as Edward Ratchett. Principal photography began in November 2016 in the United Kingdom. Kenneth Branagh directed the film, an adaptation of the classic novel of the same name by Agatha Christie, and also played detective Hercule Poirot. Depp voiced the title character Sherlock Gnomes in the animated movie "Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes", the sequel to "Gnomeo & Juliet", directed by John Stevenson. The film was released on January 12, 2018. He starred in "City of Lies", the film adaptation of the book "LAbyrinth"