“I tend to avoid alcohol when I can,” says Kemp (Johnny Depp), a reporter who has just joined an English-language newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Actually, he tends to avoid not drinking.

For a few years before he put the gun up to his head, Hunter Thompson wrote for ESPN’s Page 2. “Hey Rube” was a sports column, at least in name. But Hunter, never one to be tied down, used the space ...

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Depp worked with the author of the original book that the based on, Hunter S. Thompson, to bring The Rum Diary to the silver screen. The story follows a journalist named Paul Kemp (Depp) who decides ...

If there’s a time to share a toast, it’s now. Another one of the late Hunter S. Thompson’s novels, “The Rum Diary,” has made it to the big screen. Without a doubt, it’s right up in the ranks with ...

Watching first “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” and now “The Rum Diary,” one wonders how Hunter S. Thompson managed to make it to 67. Both films star Johnny Depp as an alter-ego of the first gonzo ...

Johnny Depp's upcoming Hunter S Thompson movie The Rum Diary has released its first teaser poster. The artwork shows a collection of miniatures rearranged to spell out 'The Rum Diary'. The movie's ...

(CNN) — Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are currently spending their days in a Fairfax, Virginia courthouse. Depp, who testified for three days this week, is suing his ex-wife for $50 million over a 2018 ...

Among his many short-lived journalistic stints, Hunter S. Thompson briefly worked in the late 1950s for a bowling magazine in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was the setting for an early, ...

The trailer for Johnny Depp's long-awaited Hunter S Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary has been released. The movie, directed by Withnail & I's Bruce Robinson, follows Depp's struggling writer Paul ...

Based on the first novel by Hunter S. Thompson, the film stars Johnny Depp, who is joined by Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Michael Rispoli, Richard Jenkins and Giovanni Ribisi. Bruce Robinson, who also ...

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