Edgar Wright’s The Night Stalker Scores a Writer

We recently learned that Edgar Wright is attached to direct the big screen adaptation of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, with Johnny Depp in line to play the title character of Carl Kolchak.

Today we have word that a writer has been found for the project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, D.V. DeVincentis (Gross Pointe Blank) has been tapped to pen The Night Stalker for Disney.

“The series centered on Carl Kolchak, a reporter for the Chicago-based Independent News Service Stories, who investigated bizarre crimes committed by supernatural agents.”