The movie based on Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson’s Rex Mundi comic book, which debuted at Image in 2003 and moved to Dark Horse in 2006, finally appears to be gathering some momentum. Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil, which optioned the property back in 2006 (see “Rex Mundi Optioned by Johnny Depp”), has hired Tron Legacy screenwriters Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal to adapt the alternate history comic about the search for the Holy Grail in an alternate history Europe of the 1930s in which the Catholic Church still reigned supreme since the Protestant rebellion had been crushed.

 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dark Horse’s Mike Richardson remains one of the film’s producers.  Back in 2006 it was announced that Johnny Depp would star in the Rex Mundi film, but no such announcement about the current version has been made yet. Fight Club scribe Jim Uhls penned the previous adaptation of Rex Mundi, which was optioned at a time when the Da Vinci Code movie was in production and “Catholic conspiracy” movies were a hot item in Tinseltown.

Klugman and Sternthal are also writing and directing The Words, an indie production starring Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Irons, that is slated to start shooting this summer.