Initial Entertainment Group has bought the film rights to three books for Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil and Warner Bros. Pictures.
Scribe D.V. DeVincentis ("Grosse Point Blank", "High Fidelity") has also been hired to adapt Nick Hornby's darkly comic "A Long Way Down" for all three companies. Story follows four desperate people who meet on New Year's Eve and form a surrogate family.
Depp isn't attached to star in the four projects at present, but any of the four the potential to turn into a starring vehicle for the actor says Variety.
The other three consist of Joseph Gangemi's "Inamorata", Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy's "Affected Provincial's Companion" and James Meek's "The People's Act of Love".
Set in Philadelphia in the 1920s, "Inamorata" revolves around a Harvard grad student who falls in love with a beautiful psychic whom he is attempting to discredit as a fraud. Peter Medak ("Romeo Is Bleeding") is in talks to helm, Gangemi is adapting his own work.
"Companion" is a compendium of essays, diagrams and poetry as a treatise on the value of being a refined gentleman in today's unrefined world.
Set in 1919 Siberia, "Love" revolves around an escapee from a Russian prison camp who stumbles upon a Christian sect.
