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The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson. It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The manuscript, begun in 1959, was discovered among Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is ...
- Hunter S. Thompson
- 213 pp
- 1998
- 1998
Oct 27, 2011 · Billed as "the long lost novel" upon its release, The Rum Diary is narrated by a young journalist named Paul Kemp who leaves New York for Puerto Rico and a job with the fictional San Juan Daily ...
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- IT’S BASED ON HUNTER S. THOMPSON’S SECOND NOVEL. A then 22-year-old Thompson wrote The Rum Diary in 1959, but it was abandoned until Johnny Depp found it among Thompson’s papers decades later.
- THE BOOK AND MOVIE WERE SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL (STRESS THE “SEMI”) Many details—including Thompson’s position at the San Juan Star—were true.
- IT’S THE SECOND TIME JOHNNY DEPP PLAYS A VERSION OF HUNTER THOMPSON. He played Thompson’s persona Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
- IT’S THE THIRD TIME A VERSION OF THOMPSON HAS APPEARED IN A FILM. Bill Murray played a version of Thompson in the 1980 film Where the Buffalo Roam, which wasn’t specifically based on any of Thompson’s books.
Jan 1, 1998 · The Rum Diary is a book dripping with legend and lore: that Thompson wrote it in 1960 when he was a Hemingway worshipper but couldn't get it published, that Johnny Depp found the manuscript among Thompson's papers and got it published in 1998, that Depp finally got it made as a movie in 2011, six years after Thompson's death. When it comes to ...
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The Rum Diary is a 2011 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson. The film stars Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, and Giovanni Ribisi . Filming began in Puerto Rico in March 2009 and was released on October 28, 2011 ...
- $30.1 million
- Christopher Young
- $45 million
The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery & violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. "It was a gold rush," says the author. "There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit." Puerto Rico was an unspoiled tropical paradise in those years -- before ...
Oct 20, 2011 · The Making of the Rum Diary. I’m sitting with Bruce Robinson shooting the breeze at his beautiful 16th-century farmhouse on the Welsh border. I’ve known Bruce for several years, but I’m here to talk about The Rum Diary. It’s his first film, as director, since 1992. It features the world’s biggest movie star, Johnny Depp, and is based ...
