'Rex Mundi' News

The Arizona Wildcat offers an interview with Jim Uhls, the screenwriter who is working to adapt the 'Rex Mundi' graphic novels into a screenplay for Johnny Depp's production company, Infinitum Nihil.

"It's based on a series of graphic novels that are still coming out," says Uhls, "and books one, two and three we are collecting as chapters. Some things we're keeping and some we're changing, but the basic premise is that it's set in the present time but it's an alternative present. By that I mean history happened differently to lead up to the present time. The Catholic Church remained in power over in Europe; the monarchies in Europe are still in control of the rest of the world, most of which is colonies. The Inquisition is still going on, and there's an internal, deep, complicated mystery that the lead character starts to unravel. I changed that mystery entirely from the graphic novel and in doing so created a lot of work for myself. (laughs)"

When asked when this film will be finished and released in theatres, Uhls didn't have a definite answer, but his best guess was possibly sometime in 2008 at the earliest.