Johnny Depp and his production company, Infinitum Nihil is set to produce Warner Bros. Pictures forthcoming adaptation of the comic book series Rex Mundi. The comic series was created by Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson, and first published by Image Comics and then later by Dark Horse.

THR reports that Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal (Tron Legacy) have been hired to write the script. Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the rights back in 2006, and Jim Uhls (Flicker, Fight Club) wrote the initial script.

Rex Mundi ran for 38 issues between 2003 and 2009. 19 issues were published by Image Comics before the series moved to Dark Horse, where a further 19 were published before the title ended. The comic tells of an alternate 1930s in which the Catholic Church still holds primary political power over a feudalistic world and in which a murder mystery is played against a search for the Holy Grail.

 

No production or release dates have been announced.