The Los Angeles Times reports that "Fight Club" screenplay adapter Jim Uhls will next be adapting "Rex Mundi", a series of graphic novels by Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson.

"Rex Mundi" (King of the World) posits an alternate present of 1933 in which the Reformation never happened, the Inquisition is still in full swing, Europe remains dominated by the Catholic Church and the rest of the world consists of colonies.

Seen as a potential starring and producing vehicle for Johnny Depp, the actor would play a pathologist investigating the mysterious death of the priest who found him as an orphan.