Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp's production company, has acquired screen rights to In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches. "The novel will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Depp," Variety reported. A number of film adaptations are on tap for Infinitum Nihil, including Depp's portrayal of Hunter S. Thompson in The Rum Diary next March, as well as "an adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret that will be directed by Chris Wedge; an adaptation of the Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram that was scripted by Eric Roth; and The Bomb in My Garden, the Mahdi Obeidi/Kurt Pitzer book that has a script by Robert Edwards. Infinitum Nihil also is developing an adaptation of Inamorata that was scripted by the book's author, Joseph Gangemi."