As usual I've been late catching up on my e-mail notices, and when I first glanced down at the final paragraph in this article (the first one I came across on the subject of Wedge's deal), I thought for a fraction of a second that it was finally announcing the screenwriter for the Depp/DS film:
http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/8289But no - it turned out to only be another mention that (Graham) King is collaborating with Depp on DS.
But the good news in all this should be that anyone who might have feared the Depp/DS film was dead simply because there's been no news of late can now rest easy that it is not. Here's the announcement from Variety of Wedge's deal:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117985121.html?categoryid=13&cs=1and it clearly states that the film is still in development.