“Now all of this may look like some crazed hallucination,” Johnny Depp, as Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Paul Kemp, says, “but it’s all true… I think.”
And so it goes in this long-awaited big screen version of “The Rum Diary,” Depp’s latest film adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson novel. The film, which sat on the shelf for a while, has a roundabout history that, in a very minor way, resembles that of the book; the semi-fictional story about Thompson’s time in Puerto Rico as a young journalist began being written in 1958, but went unpublished until 1998.
Depp, as Kemp, plays an alcoholic journalist who starts kicking around San Juan, Puerto Rico, writing for a failing local paper and taking LSD. It was a fearful, doomsday description of what Thompson worried he may become in the early stages of his career, though, obviously, his real life success far exceeded that of his nervous projection.
The film also stars Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Giovanni Ribisi and Richard Jenkins, and hits theaters October 28th.
Johnny Depp (pictured, with Amber Heard) stars as a writer at a Puerto Rico newspaper in the ’50s-set The Rum Diary, an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel. The actor was a friend of the late author’s and played him in 1998′s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He shot Rum Diary — which hits cinemas Oct. 28 — before Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, but deliberately delayed its release. ”You can’t open it next to some blockbuster thing,” he says. ”It’s a special little film.”
Premise: Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is an itinerant journalist who tires of New York and America under the Eisenhower administration and travels to Puerto Rico to write for The San Juan Star. Kemp begins the habit of drinking rum and becomes obsessed with the woman Chenault (Amber Heard).
I’m pretty sure I love ALL Johnny Depp movies! Can’t wait!
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are teaming up again, this time in the the big-screen remake of the 1960′s gothic vampire TV soap opera Dark Shadows. This will mark the eighth time Burton and Depp have worked together. Previously they worked together in the films Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, and Alice In Wonderland.
Depp will portray Barnabas Collins, a self-loathing vampire living in a Maine manor who is searching for his lost love.
Michelle Pfeiffer is in talks to play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the reclusive matriarch of the Collins family which runs the Maine town. The character has not left the mansion since the disappearance of her husband a decade earlier.
Michelle and Tim have worked together before. She played Catwoman in Burton’s Batman Returns in 1992.
January Jones certainly left little to the imagination with her stunning red Versace dress! I loved it! Other stars pictured below: Leighton Meester, Ryan Gosling, Mark Ruffalo, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Christian Bale, Colin Firth, Johnny Depp and Christina Hendricks.
Johnny Depp’s long-term relationship with Vanessa Paradis seems as rock-solid as any Hollywood romance, but new allegations against the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ star may shatter all that.
In a new interview with Star, 19-year-old model Kristen Stephenson-Pino says that Depp tried to win her over on the set of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.’
Stephenson-Pino claims that Depp lavished attention on her, calling her “exquisite” and telling her “you’re by far the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen,” before inviting her back to his trailer.
“It was one-on-one,” she says. “I was in there for a few hours, and that’s, like, everyone’s ideal lover boy. He’s just the whole package!”
In the issue, on newsstands today, an on-set source says, “The wardrobe department needed to make the perfect breast model for the voluptuous mermaid costumes,” for which Stephenson-Pino was chosen. The source claims that Depp eagerly looked on while the model undressed, telling Star, “He watched them do the molds.” CONTINUE READING! (more…)
