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FilmWad: Johnny Depp to Start Up Rum Diaries
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Screen Rant: Is ‘The Rum Diary’ Next For Johnny Depp?
FlicksNews.net: Johnny Depp To Return To Hunter S. Thompson 's Crazy Brilliant World
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Film Experience Blog —
... The Bad & The Ugly casting call for Johnny Depp's female co-star in The Rum Diary. Good luck finding the right enigmatic sexual daredevil ...
Johnny Depp to Start Up Rum Diaries
FilmWad —
... Casting announcements are in for Hunter S. Thompson's Rum Diaries which is being adapted into a movie starring Johnny Depp. Depp being no stranger to the Gonzo world will be re-engulfing himself in the strange and depraved world that Thompson brings to life. According to the casting call puyt up by thebadandugly.com they are looking for someone to play the role of Cheanult. ...
Is Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary Next for Johnny Depp?
FirstShowing.net —
... According to a casting sheet sent over to TheBadandUgly.com, Johnny Depp's next acting project will be that of The Rum Diary after he finishes playing The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. The project is based on a Hunter S. Thompson novel where Depp will play Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean, known as The Rum Diary. The project has been in development for a while, with ...
Is ‘The Rum Diary’ Next For Johnny Depp?
Screen Rant —
... seeing him portray a similar type of character again.
Generally it’s surprising he’s choosing to work as much as he is, it wasn’t that long ago that all he seemed to play was Captain Jack Sparrow. But I, for one, am glad he’s broken out of that mould and has started to play a diversity of roles again.
Have any of you read the source novel of The Rum Diary and if so do you think Depp will fit the role well?
Sources: The Bad and Ugly, Contact Music and Moono ...
Johnny Depp To Return To Hunter S. Thompson 's Crazy Brilliant World
FlicksNews.net —
... TheBadandUgly.com has received a casting announcement that suggests the Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary adaptation will be Depp's next, as it lists a March 2009 start date. Depp will play Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist writing for a rundown newspaper in 1950s Puerto Rico and surrounded by a bunch of lost souls bent on self-destruction. Bruce Robinson wrote the screenplay and will direct. ...
Is Johnny Depp's New Role One He's Played Before?
Latino Review —
... nudity. STORY LINE: 1960: Divorced alcoholic and struggling novelist PAUL KEMP decides to kick around San Juan until his ship comes in, working as a journalist for a daily newspaper that s on its last legs, drinking gallons of rum and experimenting with LSD. With his new friend BOB SALA by his side, he becomes entangled in a corrupt hotel development scheme with a slick PR consultant named SANDERSON, and falls in love with Sanderson s unattainable girlfriend, CHENAULT. . . Click HERE to read the rest. Source: ...
'Rum Diary' could be next for Johnny Depp
The Screening Log —
... The folks at the Bad and Ugly recently got a hold of a casting call that suggests Depp is already part of the flick, which is scheduled to head into production this March. ...
Johnny Depp Doing The Rum Diary Next
Cinema Blend News —
Johnny Depp Doing The Rum Diary Next Ive been waiting for this one a long time. Johnny Depp is finally getting around to making his movie version of Hunter S. Thompsons The Rum Diary . This project has been bouncing around for quite awhile now but TheBadandUgly says it will be the very next thing he does. They got the news from a casting call sent out looking for an actress to play the movies female lead, the tragically sexy and possibly crazy Chenault. The casting announcement describes the character this way: A beautiful, 25 year old, translucent vision from ...
Depp Will Read the ‘Rum Diary’ Next
Film School Rejects —
... Luckily, we’re seeing some movement on the project that seems to be slowly crawling out from development hell. We’re getting word from The Bad and The Ugly that casting calls are going up for the role of Chenault, a young woman who the main character, Paul Kemp, eventually grinds deep into a love triangle with. It’s a clutch role - basically a woman who heads down to San Juan to be with her lover only to fall way in over her head in a world of alcohol, confused by the prospect that her lover is a violent, dangerous man. ...
Stalked: East of Eden, The Rum Diary, Vanessa Hudgens
Filmstalker —
... . Could Johnny Depp finally be making The Rum Diary? The film has been in developmental hell for a while, but it could finally be moving. TheBadandUgly.com , through ...
Johnny Depp to Keep Rum Diary
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
... an adaptation of Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and got to be friends with the writer (Depp supposedly paid for Thompson’s funeral, but I’m not 100% sure if that’s true). The casting notice said the movie has a March 2009 start date. Depp’s just come off doing a cameo as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” and based on his IMDb page, is rather free.
Here’s the casting notice from TheBadandUgly:
SEEKING: [CHENAULT] A beautiful, 25 year old, translucent vision from ...
Johnny Depp Makes “Rum Diary” His Next Film
FilmoFilia —
... From The Bad and the Ugly comes word that Johnny Depp’s next project may take him to 1950s Puerto Rico for an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s “The Rum Diary.” ...
Depp soon doing shots on The Rum Diary
Awards Daily —
... 1960: Divorced alcoholic and struggling novelist PAUL KEMP [Johnny Depp] decides to kick around San Juan until his ship comes in, working as a journalist for a daily newspaper that’s on its last legs, drinking gallons of rum and experimenting with LSD. With his new friend BOB SALA [Michael Rispoli] by his side, he becomes entangled in a corrupt hotel development scheme with a slick PR consultant named SANDERSON [Aaron Eckhart], and falls in love with Sanderson’s unattainable girlfriend, CHENAULT [ ...
