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Johnny Depp Hunts Creatures of the Night as ‘The Night Stalker’!
Disney and Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil are teaming up on a feature version of the crazy awesome ’70s TV movie The Night Stalker. Depp is the potential star of the film, reports Deadline.
Like many, Infinitum Nihil partner Christi Dembrowski and Depp had fond memories of the ABC telepic and series “The Night Stalker,” and they got Disney’s Rich Ross and Sean Bailey sparked on a pitch for Depp to potentially play tabloid reporter Carl Kolchak. Originated by Darren McGavin, Kolchak was the dogged journalist first seen in the 1972 telepic (where he hunted a killer who was draining the blood of beautiful girls on the Las Vegas strip) and later in the ABC series “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.” Kolchak’s investigations always seemed to lead him to the doorstep of vampires, zombies, werewolves and aliens. For its time, it was pretty scary stuff.
Depp is currently at work on feature version of the ’70s British telesoap Dark Shadows for Tim Burton.
Director Takashi Yamazaki (Godzilla Minus One) has got a handful of projects in the works, including this year’s Godzilla Minus Zero and 2028’s Grandgear, and Deadline reports this afternoon that Yamazaki will also be directing a mysterious film titled Nue.
20th Century landed the hot project from director Takashi Yamazaki.
The film is being described as “an original epic,” with Ridley Scott producing.
“Plot details are being kept under wraps,” Deadline notes in their report.
Scott Free’s Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss will produce alongside Keiichiro Moriya and Go Abe from Robot Communications, and Toho-Tombo’s Georgina Pope, as well as Amie Horiuchi.