Got a favorite vintage ride featured in a period film? E3 Spark Plugs wants to know. Incidentally, we hear the film has inspired a jam band named Giovanni Ribisi in a Motorcycle Sidecar. We’re not sure of the model, but we’re thinking it’s a Harley 45. And who doesn’t dig a vintage motorcycle with Giovanni Ribisi in a sidecar.
You gotta love the decidedly less glam Fiat 500 minus doors, a roof and a front seat – kinda like that loveable loser friend you’re always bailing out of trouble and but keep around anyway. Another jaw dropper is Sanderson’s late 1950s Austin Healey. That’s the kind of employment bonus we should all be so lucky to land. Thompsons second novel his first, Prince Jellyfish, remains unpublished novel The Rum Diary, wasnt published until 1998. The trailer opens with Kemp driving a sweet candy apple red ’59 Corvette, which Producer Graham King let Depp take home after filming wrapped. But what we love are the great vintage vehicles you’ll see all through the film, set in the late 1950s.
Sanderson recruits Kemp to write some positive fluff about his latest scheme, which sets the film up for its major conflict: Kemp must decide whether to use his words to benefit the sleazy businessmen’s bottom line or to take the bastards down. Trouble is, Chenault just happens to be engaged to Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart), who just happens to be a corrupt developer bent on turning the pristine island into a capitalist paradise sucking up to the wealthy. Kemp quickly adapts to the rum-soaked island life and develops an obsession for the beautiful Chenault (Heard). Paul Kemp ( Johnny Depp) arrives on the island of Puerto Rico after being enlisted to become the newest reporter for the San Juan Star. Thompson s lone novel and written and directed by Bruce Robinson. The Rum Diary is the story of Paul Kemp (played by Depp in a young Thompson-esque way), a divorced, anti-authoritarian boozehound of a journalist who jettisons the madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America for the beautiful Puerto Rico to write for The San Juan Star, a tiny local newspaper on its last legs. But why is the rum gone A 2011 American film starring Johnny Depp, based on Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean. But for the parade of sweet (and just plain funny) vintage rides. Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diarya national bestseller and New York Times Notable Bookis Hunter S.
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Not just because any movie with a line like “We’ll nail this bastard to his own front door” has to be a good one. Not just because Amber Heard is a stone cold hottie. Not just for the crazed Gonzo brand of entertainment. We here at E3 Spark Plugs have been waiting with bated breath for this one. Thompson’s The Rum Diary finally hits theater screens nationwide Friday. Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S.
Thompson's "The Rum Diary." This late 1950s Austin Healy just might be our favorite.Īfter years of will-it or won’t-it-get-made speculation, the Johnny Depp-fronted adaptation of Hunter S. Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diarya national bestseller and New York Times Notable Bookis Hunter S. along with a few great vintage rides, star in the film adaptation of Hunter S. Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.Johnny Depp and Aaron Eckhart. The scene from The Rum Diary where Depp and Heard's characters (Paul Kemp and Chenault) meet is being shared for a line that fans say "didn't age well."Īfter meeting for the first time in the water, Chenault swims away, to which Paul (Depp) says, "Oh god. Clips of the pair acting opposite each other have been shared online as some claim it reflects, and even serves as a premonition, to their real-life relationship later down the line. The couple met on the set of the 2011 movie The Rum Diary and later formed a romantic relationship. Depp has claimed the insinuation that he was responsible has resulted in a mass loss of earnings in his career. The formerly married couple is currently embroiled in a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit over an op-ed Heard wrote in 2018 where she claimed she was the victim of domestic abuse, without naming Depp.
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While the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial takes a break, fans have found a clip from the film, The Rum Diary, in which Depp and Heard starred together, that seems to forecast the pair's doomed relationship. Thompson, 'The Rum Diary' tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp).
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