Depp to star in Stephen King adaptation

Spider-Man writer David Koepp is to direct Johnny Depp in his own adaptation of Stephen King's novella Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden for Columbia Pictures.

US entertainment trade newspaper Variety reports that the story follows what happens when a recently divorced writer, who is moping alone at a lake house, is interrupted by a psychotic who accuses him of having stolen his best idea for a story.