EXCLUSIVE: Disney and Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil are teaming up on two new projects: a feature version of the '70s TV movie The Night Stalker, and a drama about the Midnight Ride made by Paul Revere to warn Colonial militia of the impending British invasion. Depp is the potential star of both films, and he and his Infinitum Nihil partner Christi Dembrowski will produce.

Like many, Dembrowski and Depp had fond memories of the ABC telepic and series The Night Stalker, and they got Disney's Rich Ross and Sean Bailey sparked on a pitch for Depp to potentially play tabloid reporter Carl Kolchak. Originated by Darren McGavin, Kolchak was the dogged journalist first seen in the 1972 telepic (where he hunted a killer who was draining the blood of beautiful girls on the Las Vegas strip) and later in the ABC series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Kolchak's investigations always seemed to lead him to the doorstep of vampires, zombies, werewolves and aliens. For its time, it was pretty scary stuff. The studio will go out to writers shortly. David Kennedy will be exec producer.

Dembrowski and Depp set up the Paul Revere film at Disney with Batman Forever scribes Lee and Janet Batchler writing the screenplay. The film will focus on the Boston silversmith and that 24-hour period in which he made the risky "midnight ride" from Charlestown to Lexington, becoming a seminal figure in the American Revolutionary War. Jon Brown and Infinitum Nihil's Margaret French-Isaac will be executive producers.

It is a coup for Disney's Ross and Bailey to be back in business with Depp, right after Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides cracked the $1 billion mark in worldwide gross. It's the third time that the studio has reached the billion-dollar milestone on a film with Depp in the lead role, after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Alice In Wonderland. Depp next saddles up for the studio with Armie Hammer in the Gore Verbinski-directed The Lone Ranger.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Was a fan of the Night Stalker. Good show!

Yeah,I even tried watching the remake a few years back. All I remember was Gabrielle Union was in it. (Ask Keeping Score who she is.)

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Never saw the remake.

I think the original series is available for instant viewing on Netflix.

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Johnny Depp has definitely come a long way from playing "Officer Tom Hanson" on "21 Jump Street" in the early years of FOX, and he's actually got a small role in the upcoming feature film version of the Stephen J. Cannell-produced cop show from the early '90s.

Even though it's not on the schedule right now, I remember Chicago's own WWME 23, better known as MeTV, featured reruns of "Jump Street" as part of a Saturday afternoon block of classic cop shows. Given the fact the channel is now national on stations across America, might the original series return to MeTV this fall? Stay tuned.

While he's definitely distanced himself from that first series, he's made a lot of money for the Walt Disney Company in countless films as "Jack Sparrow" in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise in recent years.

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Wrong. He was warning the British that they can't take away our guns.