You know what Johnny Depp needs?  More work.  The constantly-busy actor, who is currently attached to four upcoming projects is now partnering with director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) to adapt author Nick Tosche’s novel In the Hand of Dante into a film.  But in an interview with The Playlist, Schnabel points out that there’s no time table for the project right now.

“It belongs to Johnny, but I’m not going to make it for a couple of years. We’re gonna work on writing it, developing it. We didn’t sign anything. It’s just something Johnny asked me to read and I think it’s a great book…”

Depp’s interest in adapting the novel is no surprise as his production company Infinitum Nihil, bought the rights to the book in 2008.  So what is the book about?  Well Schnabel sums the story up thusly, “It’s about everything.”  To read more, including what the book is actually about, hit the jump.