Edgar Wright and Johnny Depp team for The Night Stalker

Johnny Depp seems to have a thing for resurrecting old T.V. properties. He will soon be seen in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, based on the 1960's T.V. serial that mixed vampires, zombies, time travel and parallel universes with soap opera cliches, and it has now been announced he will will produce and star in a big screen remake of The Night Stalker, a 1970's tele film, that will be directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Scott Pilgrim Versus The World).

The original The Night Stalker starred Darren McGavin as Karl Kolchak, a tabloid reporter who, while tracking down a serial killer, comes face to face with a vampire. The film spawned a sequel, The Night Strangler, and a short lived T.V. series, where Kolchak faced everything from U.F.O.'s to zombies to robot's. The series is often cited as the inspiration for The X-Files. The series was resurrected in 2005 for another short run, with Stuart Townsend as Kolchak.

No writer has been announced for the new project, but that is expected to change very soon.

Source: Deadline