Warner Bros Updates on RUM DIARY

By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor
Date: Monday, July 30, 2007
Source: Variety

Warner Bros. has told Variety that the Hunter S. Thompson work, RUM DIARY, is moving forward with actor Johnny Depp. When I first read this a few minutes ago, my question was immediately "Hasn't it been moving forward for two years now?". The long awaited follow-up to FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS has been in development hell and planning since 2005. Depp and Benicio Del Toro have both been attached for as long.

This particular book from Thompson was written long before his "Gonzo" stories took place. He wrote it back in 1959 in his early 20s and it was first published in 1998.

Plot Summary: Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist writing for a rundown newspaper in 1950s Puerto Rico and surrounded by a bunch of lost souls bent on self-destruction.

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Comments/Responses

farmingbjorn • Jul 30, 2007, 02:20am •

give me a big bag of psychedelic mushrooms and I am there...

Miner49er • Jul 30, 2007, 04:18am •

As your attorney, I advise you to watch this movie and take a hit from the little brown bottle out of my shaving kit. You won't need much, just a tiny taste...

darkedge • Jul 30, 2007, 04:27am •

"Rum Diary has been in development hell and planning since 2005"

More like since 2000, I have a scanned fax from Hunter somewhere moaning about the production company not getting their shit together from around then..

Rum Diary doesn't have all the psychadelia normally associated with Hunter - he wrote the book in his early 20's. It's more booze and the horror the world can be. Damn good book though.

kgatchel • Jul 30, 2007, 12:24pm •

"Rum Diaries" was the first book of his I tried to read. "Tried to", meaning I was hoping for the crazy pschydelia and rant-astic prose I'd heard so much about. But the beginning seemed so slow, compared to what I was expecting. Since then, I've read "Hell's Angels", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", and "Fear and Loathing on The Campaign Trail '72".

I may go back to The Rum Diary, but something about it seems like I might as well read the stuff he wrote after he found his voice than when he was trying things out.

Plus, I resent him getting a book published at 22. But perhaps that's more of my fault.

"Hell's Angels" is my favorite, though.

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