Depp, Heard cast in Hunter S. Thompson tale
Aaron Eckhart, left, and Richard Jenkins
BERLIN -- Aaron Eckhart and Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins will be hitting the sauce in "Rum Diary," the adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel that stars Johnny Depp.
Eckhart is in negotiations while Jenkins is signed on for the movie, which Bruce Robinson adapted and is directing. Amber Heard also is on board.
Eckhart is part of a love triangle that sees him vying with Depp for Heard's affection. "Diary" is the tale of a washed-up, hard-drinking journalist named Paul Kemp (Depp) in 1950s Puerto Rico. Eckhart would play Sanderson, a wealthy landowner who believes everything has a price and introduces Kemp to a different standard of living.
Jenkins is playing Lotterman, the man who oversees the rundown newspaper where Kemp works.
The project, which Depp, Christi Dembrowski and Graham King are producing, begins shooting March 30 in Puerto Rico. "Rum" is a production of King's GK Films and Depp's Infinitum Nihil. Also producing is Film Engine, with A.J. Dix, Anthony Rhulen and William Shively attached alongside Robert Kravis and Greg Shapiro. GK Films is preselling at the European Film Market in Berlin.
4 comments:
well if'n that dont beat all
finally. this thing has been in limbo back into the gray areas of my recent memory. hell yes. is benecio del toro still involved?
does anyone else wonder what the tone of this movie will be like? the novel is so drasticly diffrent from F&L, i can't imagine they'll be in the same style. Also, i think depp will play Kemp in a much diffrent style than he did Duke- still thompson, but not silly.
Benecio was supposed to direct an earlier incarnation. i think hes no longer involved.
I see a sober tone. Hunter is just drunk alot in this one and having a bunch of sex, not all drugged out.
drunk all the time but a sober tone? oops your bad maybe that's a SOMBER tone. read a book you illiterate son of a bitch.
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