Johnny Depp To Play Rex Mundi?
A screenwriter has reportedly been chosen to adapt the graphic novel with Johnny Depp in mind for the lead.
Jim Uhls (scripter for Fight Club) is reportedly working on a big screen adaptation of Rex Mundi, the graphic novels by Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson, with Johnny Depp in mind for the lead, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Here's how the newspaper describes the story: "Rex Mundi (King of the World) posits an alternate present of 1933 in which the Reformation never happened, the Inquisition is still in full swing, Europe remains dominated by the Catholic Church and the rest of the world consists of colonies.
"Depp would play a pathologist investigating the mysterious death of the priest who found him as an orphan," according to the LA Times.
"It's a noir-ish 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,'" Uhls told the newspaper. "There are murders and a mystery, and the lead character discovers a massive conspiracy, biblical in its origin."