Johnny Depp Says He Wants To Play Kolchak and Paul Revere

Billion-dollar box office star "Johnny Depp" will potentially star in two very different roles for Disney. I guess things are going well over at the Dark Shadows set, because Johnny Depp is now confident that he should be in even more ’70s supernatural TV series-turned-feature-films (this is now a genre). While Depp is currently working with Tim Burton on bringing the aforementioned ’70s vampire soap opera to screens, now he reportedly wants to star in an adaptation of the 1970s show Kolchak: The Night Stalker, too. The original series spawned from a duo of successful TV movies, and starred Darren McGavin as a detective specializing in the paranormal, with Christmas Story dad investigating into cases involving things like vampires, werewolves, and cavemen unthawed back to life in modern day. Doesn’t that sound just swell for a movie culture currently obsessed with classic monster archetypes and Encino Man? Disney thought so, too, so it’s already going out to writers.
he Oscar-nominated actor was recently heard in the animated film “Rango,” and his “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” recently topped the the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office.
Also on John Depp’s docket: a new telling of the legendary ride of Paul Revere. Apparently inspired by Sarah Palin’s fictionalized take on the story (gotcha, Palin!), Depp and his Infinitum Nihil film banner have already set a Revere film up at Disney, too, and have Lee and Janet Batchler working on a script. It seems Paul W.S. Anderson was not the only one impressed by that pair’s work on the Batman Forever script....
In the end, though, considering both projects are set up at Disney, none of this probably matters. They’ll more than likely just take their Depp idol in  hand, utter the incantation, and command him to put his Pirate costume back on for a couple more of those things. Shame that.