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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2005 5:29 pm 
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I saw this on imdb. You might know about it already but if not...

Johnny Depp is set to reprise his acclaimed role as journalist Hunter S. Thompson in the sequel to his 1998 hit Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. The follow-up, called The Rum Diary, is based on Thompson's very first novel, which journals his career and personal escapades in 1950s Puerto Rico. Depp is also acting as executive producer for the film. Thompson shot himself to death at his secure compound in Woody Creek, Colorado, on February 20
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I ws aware of this, but have no idea what the time frame is gonna be. I think Nick Nolte's gonna play his boss. I think this one could turn out pretty good. I think it would be better if they would combine some of the stuff he wrote about living in NYC (published in Songs of the Doomed) as an introduction..and then showed him moving on down to PR, and the troubles he gets into.

If it is the same ham-fisted direction of the Vegas movie I will be saddened (sorry to Terry Gilliam fans, but JEBUS!)

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I think the Rum Diary could be made into a movie more easily than Fear & Loathing. But given oppurtunity, Directors can fuck anything up.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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I think the Rum Diary could be made into a movie more easily than Fear & Loathing. But given oppurtunity, Directors can fuck anything up.


Obviously it is a more straight ahead story, without such an emphasis on internal monologues.

As I said the other day, they got the tone of the movie all wrong IMO.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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yeah, I probably should have said Rum Diary will be harder to fuck up, but given Hollywood that doesn't mean much.

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yeah, I probably should have said Rum Diary will be harder to fuck up, but given Hollywood that doesn't mean much.


I'm still cautiously optimistic on it. I think it would have potential to be pretty qual. They should let me shoot it ;)

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Senator Dis Soff LooGAR Wrote:
oldbulee Wrote:
yeah, I probably should have said Rum Diary will be harder to fuck up, but given Hollywood that doesn't mean much.


I'm still cautiously optimistic on it. I think it would have potential to be pretty qual. They should let me shoot it ;)


Hey Johnny let's get a shitload of booze and drugs, and go to Puerto Rico and see what happens.
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Senator Dis Soff LooGAR Wrote:
oldbulee Wrote:
I think the Rum Diary could be made into a movie more easily than Fear & Loathing. But given oppurtunity, Directors can fuck anything up.


Obviously it is a more straight ahead story, without such an emphasis on internal monologues.

As I said the other day, they got the tone of the movie all wrong IMO.

You think so, Senator? I thought Fear and Loathing was as close to the book as any film representation could ever be. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Edit for FrostingsometimesSpoon: please read "enjoyed the hell out of it" as "hated it like I hate everything else."


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Radcliffe Wrote:
Senator Dis Soff LooGAR Wrote:
oldbulee Wrote:
I think the Rum Diary could be made into a movie more easily than Fear & Loathing. But given oppurtunity, Directors can fuck anything up.


Obviously it is a more straight ahead story, without such an emphasis on internal monologues.

As I said the other day, they got the tone of the movie all wrong IMO.

You think so, Senator? I thought Fear and Loathing was as close to the book as any film representation could ever be. I enjoyed the hell out of it.


I found it cheesy and cartoonish, almost slapstick...whereas I think most of the comedy in the book was from them trying to play it straight, and fucking it up. The Busey "kiss me" scene being the most obvious example. That is one of the funniest scenes in the book, looked at it the right way, but ol Terry screwed the pooch on it.

I have had this discussion with Yail, and he takes your side.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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