With Edgar Wright no longer directing Disney and Marvel’s Ant-Man his schedule has opened up and Deadline is reporting he may not be going too far.
The site reports he may be heading back to a feature film adaptation of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” at Disney, which he was first attached to back in February 2012. The film is a remake of the ’70s ABC telepic and series with Johnny Depp as a candidate for the lead role as Carl Kolchak, a tabloid news reporter (played by Darren McGavin in the original) whose cases always led to supernatural perpetrators including zombies, vampires, werewolves and aliens.
Deadline reports the screenplay from D.V. DiVicentis (High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank) is in good shape and the film is expected to be more of a family friendly PG-13 feature. It’s interesting looking back at my write-up on the news from 2012 where I wrote: Perhaps this is a way to brand Wright as a Disney filmmaker with box-office drawing power, which they could then translate to the long-in-the-works superhero adaptation. The adaptation I was talking about was obviously Ant-Man.
Of course, while Wright’s involvement is not a guarantee neither is Depp’s considering he has Black Mass and, possibly, Pirates of the Caribbean 5 coming up as well as the Alice in Wonderland sequel, Looking Through the Glass. So his involvement may not happen beyond serving as a producer, but it would make sense for Wright if he was still interested, especially considering he seems a little down in the dumps when it comes to the Ant-Man news as he posted this “selfie” on Twitter recently only to delete it shortly thereafter.
