That’s the notion writer-director Bruce Robinson and star Johnny Depp run into the ground in this loving, stuttering adaptation.ĭepp’s acting is in danger of becoming a series of caricaturesĭepp, of course, befriended Thompson when he played him in Terry Gilliam’s fine Fear and Loathing. When The Rum Diary was finally published in 1998, it wasn’t the failure Thompson and many others had feared it to be, but an elegantly written, bohemian book about US expat reporters in Puerto Rico, as its writer had been: a sort of Gonzo prequel. He never published a novel in all that time, instead making himself the lead character in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and other, maybe fictionally extrapolated versions of his confrontations with a broken American Dream.
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