“Scriptland,” as it turns out, is not the area formed by the borders of the 10, 101, and 405 freeways, it is the LA Times’ new weekly feature on the world’s highest-paying thankless job, screenwriting. While the first installment of the series was a fawning valentine to the King of Scribes, Charlie Kaufman, this week’s edition offers something a little more intriguing.
Jim Uhls (IMDb), who earned is bona fides adapting Fight Club (IMDb) (and doing a fabulous commentary track discussion with Chuck Palahniuk, I might add), has signed on to turn the graphic novel Rex Mundi into a movie starring Johnny Depp. This continues a trend of Hollywood snatching up graphic novels as if they were tacky TV shows from the 70s. I shudder to think of the day I wake up and find that they’re making Jimmy Corrigan, starring Jack Black and Carl Reiner.
