Disney has hired (Edgar) Wright to direct Johnny Depp in a big-screen version of The Night Stalker, which was originally a TV movie, then a series, in which reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) found himself embroiled in supernatural goings-on as he covered crime stories.
via Edgar Wright Set to Direct Johnny Depp in ‘The Night Stalker’ | /Film.
Norman Spinrad, the noted science fiction author, penned two episodes of Star Trek for Gene Roddenberry, namely “The Doomsday Machine” and “He Walked Among Us,” the latter about a primitive race, the Jugali, inexplicably employing technology well beyond their capabilities. That first episode was produced, but “He Walked Among Us” – at Spinrad’s urging — went un-purchased and unproduced. And then the teleplay, along with that Captain’s Log, went missing… for 45 years.
