Dennis Lehane

Berkeley Square Films is dipping into “Depravity.”

Co-written by “Mystic River” author Dennis Lehane and BSF’s Paul Tamasy, “Depravity” leads a slate that includes the original drama “Bullet” and an adaptation of the Richie Farrell novel “What’s Left of Us.” “Dear John’s” Channing Tatum has become attached to star in the latter, a look at seven days in the life of a junkie suffering through detox.

“Berkeley Square’s mantra is to go back to the 1970’s approach to filmmaking, where the artists have complete creative autonomy while still ensuring that the money actually makes it to the screen rather than into the studio’s pockets,” said Tamasy (“Air Bud”). “We will focus on smart independent films with strong commercial hooks and tightly controlled budgets that you can hang a campaign on.”

The rare female screenwriter working in non-romantic comedy genres, Læta Kalogridis has had her hands on a diverse array of scripts in the past 15 years — “Scream 3,” “Tomb Raider,” “Wonder Woman,” “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” “Night Watch,” and “Alexander,” to name a few. Friday, Paramount releases the Martin Scorsese-directed “Shutter Island,” her adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s paranoia-soaked Cold War thriller. And this summer Fox will let loose its action tentpole “Knight and Day,” which Kalogridis co-wrote. She also served as an uncredited helper on James Cameron’s record-busting “Avatar.” Here, Kalogridis talks about the bloody inspiration in Greek myth, female superheroes and the appeal of the “unbelievably, incredibly, outrageously violent.”

How exactly do you pronounce your name?
It’s Læta, with the diphthong—it’s Latin, actually. If it were Greek it would be Lay-eta. But it’s Latin, so it’s like Caesar.

So your ethnic background is Greek?
On my father’s side.