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POTC3:STTT is an initiative that plans to send AT WORLD’S END Straight To The Top of the box office charts! Members from many Depp and Pirate sites are banding together to support this cause, and the plan is simple and easy to remember: “All you need to do is go have fun seeing POTC3 as many times as possible,” writes organizer Bootstrap Beck. Specifically, the initiative urges supporters to boost box office numbers by seeing AT WORLD’S END one more time on its opening weekend than they did for DEAD MAN’S CHEST (if you saw DMC twice, see AWE three times); and to see AWE at least once more during its full-summer run than they did for DMC.

You can find full details of the POTC3:STTT campaign on the Zone’s News & Views forum; we thank Bootstrap Beck for posting them and for her work in support of AT WORLD’S END. Enjoy the official launch video on You Tube here: http://tinyurl.com/2sf7g8 and visit the official POTC3:STTT website here: http://potc3sttt.com/ We hope you will accept the invitation to join the largest gathering of Pirate Brethren ever! –Part-Time Poet

FIGHT CLUB screenwriter Jim Uhls was in Tucson for an appearance at The Loft Cinema on Friday, April 27, and he gave an interview to Arizona Wildcat reporter Astrid Duffy in which he discusses (among other things) his current project, an adaptation of the graphic novels REX MUNDI for Johnny Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil. Plans are for Johnny to play the protagonist, Julian Sauniere, in this complex alternate-universe mystery set in the 1930s. Many thanks to RumLover for sharing the interview; here’s what Mr. Uhls had to say about REX MUNDI:

WILDCAT: I’ve heard you’re working on a new screenplay, REX MUNDI, that Johnny Depp is rumored to star in. Could you tell me a little bit about that?

UHLS: That’s correct. It’s based on a series of graphic novels that are still coming out, and books one, two and three we are collecting as chapters. Some things we’re keeping and some we’re changing, but the basic premise is that it’s set in the present time but it’s an alternative present.

By that, I mean history happened differently to lead up to the present time. The Catholic Church remained in power over in Europe; the monarchies in Europe are still in control of the rest of the world, most of which is colonies. The Inquisition is still going on, and there’s an internal, deep, complicated mystery that the lead character starts to unravel. I changed that mystery entirely from the graphic novel and in doing so created a lot of work for myself. (laughs)

WILDCAT: Will you have less freedom in adapting a graphic novel since the images are already there?

UHLS: No, in terms of having all the frames already there in the graphic novel and how they’ve organised it, it wouldn’t differ from adapting an ordinary book. I still have to have an approach and have it all fit together my way.

WILDCAT: How long will it be before this new film comes out?

UHLS: Probably, at the earliest, next year sometime.

WILDCAT: It seems like graphic novels are getting to be very popular at the movie theatres right now.

UHLS: Yes, yes. Many of them are very different in content and style, and this one is not in superhero style. It’s a very different kind of story, which shows the versatility of graphic novels.

WILDCAT: Do you think REX MUNDI will have the same kind of success as FIGHT CLUB?

UHLS: Well, I hope it does very well! That’s all I can say! I think it will be unique enough and interesting enough to peak the curiosity, so hopefully that’ll be a success.

REX MUNDI is a wonderfully imaginative tale, one we’re eagerly anticipating as a film; it’s good to hear such an enthusiastic report from Jim Uhls. You can read the full interview at http://tinyurl.com/yvvw67 –Part-Time Poet