“I even had people coming to me wanting to make it into a movie.”ĭepp, who was 28 at the time of the video's release, would go on to maintain a close friendship with Petty for years afterward.
“One of the only times I’ve ever felt fulfilled by a video,” he later said.
"Into the Great Wide Open" in particular had an especially cinematic quality to it. Instead of straight performance footage of the band, Petty often opted for a more whimsical or dramatic approach, bringing the characters in his songs to life. His clips for songs like "You Got Lucky," "Don't Come Around Here No More" and "Runnin' Down a Dream" were among the most lavish and popular of the era. Petty was, by this point in his career, not a rookie in the music video-making game. “I just gave him a phone and let him loose.”) (“He’s a natural,” Temple said of Dimitriades. Petty's real-life manager, Tony Dimitriades, even makes a cameo as the agent who first signs Eddie to a recording contract. The Heartbreakers themselves got in on the action - Petty appears as the Mad Hatter-style narrator, tattoo artist and Eddie's roadie, guitarist Mike Campbell helps present an award to Eddie near the end of the video, keyboardist Benmont Tench is Eddie's record producer, bassist Howie Epstein serves as motorcycle dealer and drummer Stan Lynch appears as the doorman who denies Eddie's manager entry into a red-carpet event. In fact, Johnny’s a huge Sex Pistols fan -and I think you can see a lot of Sid in his performance." Johnny Depp could be James Dean or Sid Vicious or Axl. Temple also helmed videos for Petty's "Free Fallin'," "Yer So Bad" and "Learning to Fly," in addition to directing clips for Sex Pistols, Neil Young, Judas Priest, the Kinks and many others. “There’s such a universal quality to it. “We just wanted to capture the song’s depiction of the perils of rock stardom,” director Julien Temple told the Los Angeles Times in 1991.
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