The L.A. Times is reporting Jim Uhls of “Fight Club” fame has been hired to adapt “Rex Mundi,” a series of graphic novels by Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson, into a feature for Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil production company. According to this article, Johnny will produce and star in the film.

“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, who became the biggest movie star in the world this summer by
reprising his Keith Richards-inspired swashbuckler, would play a pathologist
investigating the mysterious death of the priest who found him as an orphan.

This wouldn’t be the first time Johnny participated in a project based on a graphic novel. The film From Hell also began as one written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Eddie Campbell.