Infinitum Nihil and GK Films buy Western screenplay, DESPERATE HOURS

Johnny Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil, and Graham King’s GK Films have just acquired E. Nicholar Mariana’s Western screenplay Desperate Hours. Named to the prestigious “Black List,” a yearly ranking by industry insiders of screenplays considered most promising commercially and artistically, Desperate Hours is a Western “in the vein of High Noon,” according to Variety. The story revolves around a widowed rancher “who bands together with his neighbors to battle a group of mobsters who have come from the industrialized East looking to overtake the Western town and collect a girl with a mysterious past.” Of course this leads to “an explosive showdown” in the tradition of great Westerns . . . .

Desperate Hours will be produced by Graham King and Tim Headington for GK Films and Johnny Depp and Christi Dembrowski for Infinitum Nihil. The two companies recently produced Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and are in post-production on Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows for Warner Bros. According to Variety, Infinitum Nihil and GK Films also share several other projects in development at Warners, including Shantaram, Attica, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates.

The Zone thanks Theresa for sharing the news; you can read more about Infinitum Nihil’s latest acquisition on the Zone’s News & Views forum.

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