This could either be the recipe for a terrific film, or a total disaster, as Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs the World director Edgar Wright has signed up to direct Johnny Depp’s reworking of the classic 1970s series, Kolchak the Night Stalker.

The original TV movies and subsequent 20-part series starred Darren McGavin as a reporter whose investigations regularly led him to cross paths with supernatural forces. It was briefly remade a few years ago starring Stuart Townsend, with only six of the ten episodes broadcast.

According to the report at Deadline, Depp will be working on this while filming The Lone Ranger for Disney. Wright is still attached to Marvel movie Ant-Man for Disney.

 

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  1. I think Depp could make a great Kolchak, but I just hope they don’t turn it into a comedy. The original was a scary drama with comic relief, and I would rather see something closer to that instead of a kitschy Starsky & Hutch-style remake.

  2. Depp as Kolchak? Idiotic. That’s just my opinion but I suppose there are those who for some reason would remove this comment. Is Depp beyond criticism? Peculiar.

  3. Ah. That explains it. Although it depends on what one considers offensive language and also on context. My previous comments as regards to what Depp and Wright are likely to wreak on Kolchak (dissolute videogame-playing hipster who’s also likely a ‘blogger) with the suggestion that they should “get lost” was not meant in venomous earnest, not to mention that they are hardly likely to be checking in to Sci-Fi Bulletin however I can see that using a asterisked word instead of “get lost” might be seen as offensive (even if only by Sister Wendy) that said when I checked in and redid the message with the original asterisked word replaced by a mild epithet used by Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter books and films then…well, that’s a bit silly. It’s but a short trip to censoring *any* criticism serious or relatively jovial. Of course it’s your site and you can do whatever you want but then any reviews you post will be as bland as milk because you surely won’t to criticize anything even bad ideas and mannequin-like actors (I stress this isn’t a reference to Depp, who is okay but not suited to some roles and generally over-praised). I hope that you see that I’m not attacking you here simply pointing out inconsistencies and the danger of censorship, admittedly I’m sick of the narrowness of modern Hollywood and the lack of imagination that leads to remake after reimagining after “reboot”, artistic necrophilia isn’t my thing and the conservatism of the audience is worse so those things get my goat ;).

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