The Rum Diary Book Characters. The rum diary is scheduled to roll into u.s. In 2011, the novel was made into a movie starring depp, aaron eckhart, amber heard, and giovanni ribisi.
The rum diary is hunter s. Thompson was written in 1960, but not published until 1998 when the manuscript was found among thompson’s papers by johnny depp. Thompson, the rum diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the caribbean boomtown that was san juan, puerto rico, in the late 1950s.
Theaters on october 28th, 2011.
While it would be impossible to fully translate hst's genius to the screen, the rum diary succeeds in capturing the very darkly humorous spirit of the book & the characters much better than the fear & loathing movie, which was just too bizarre & over the top. This movie has both feet in the real world & as a result is far more important. In 2011, the novel was made into a movie starring depp, aaron eckhart, amber heard, and giovanni ribisi. Or perhaps it was indeed a novel in the tradition sense, and thompson’s imagination had been set into action by his experiences as a struggling journalist.