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Round Up: Depp in Rum Diary, Scream 4, Crazies Casting…
By Mali Elfman
- Is Hunter S. Thompson’s, The Rum Diary right for Johnny Depp? The details from the script include: “1960: Divorced alcoholic and struggling novelist Paul Kemp decides to kick around San Juan until his ship comes in… drinking gallons of rum and experimenting with LSD.” That sounds like something Depp would be great at! He’s developed a thing for rum hasn’t he? [FirstShowing]
- Radha Mitchell joins Deadwood’s former sheriff Timothy Olyphant in George Romero’s 1973 horror remake of The Crazies. Good movie. Don’t fuck it up. [Empire]
- Warner Bros. Entertainment is asking its departments to cut their budgets by at least 10 percent. Maybe the Watchmen stress is getting to them, maybe it’s the recession. Either way, cutbacks are here. [Variety]
- Milk wins Best Picture and Sean Penn wins Best Actor in Vancouver Critics Awards. At least we know that the Canadians appreciate the film. [Variety]
- It looks like Craven is not done with the Scream series yet. The writer of the first two Scream films, Kevin Williamson is coming back on to write another screenplay and Wes Craven might be coming back to direct, or at least be a part of the production in some way. Aren’t we done with that franchise? The story-lines really dropped off at the end. [FirstShowing]
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:13AM
I really hope they don't bastardize Thompson's image by involving LSD in the film version of The Rum Diary. I could be wrong, but I don't remember a single example of drug use in The Rum Diary, save for the liquor that was nearly ubiquitous.
I'm hoping that Depp would find that as a deal breaker. As a close friend of Thompson, he knew Hunter regretted being personified by the drug-induced hype that followed the film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The excesses of Thompson were a part of his character, and represented very little of what he actually stood for– morality, patriotism and a deeper journalistic reach than anyone else of his time.
The Rum Diary was a great book, and should stand on its own to satisfy audiences– the screenplay shouldn't fabricate it with drug use to attempt to cash in on the post-theater popularity of Fear and Loathing…
(side note– the rumors about a screen version of The Rum Diary are a good 5+ years old, I' personally prefer they don't take flight. if anyone is going to do it justice, though, it is Depp)
Monday, June 8, 2009 5:15PM
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