MUMBAI: Johnny Depp‘s production house Infinitium Nihil, in association with Walt Disney Studios is developing an adaptation of Paul Reverse‘s The Night Stalker.

The Night Stalker is based on the 1972 ABC-TV film that turned into the series Kolchak: he Night Stalker that was about a newspaper reporter in Chicago who investigated mysterious deaths often finding a supernatural connection.

The film in question is based on the colonial figure and his famous midnight ride – recently bought to light again after former Alaska governor Sarah Palin mis-stated the basics of the Rivere story.

Depp and Disney have been a profitable team; their most recent collaboration being Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides grossing more that $ 1 billion worldwide as did Alice In Woderland.

Depp is also doing The Lone Ranger for Disney. He is also to do the fifth edition of Pirates.