The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson that was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Rum Diary has been adapted into a film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, which stars Johnny Depp as journalist Paul Kemp. Filming took place in Puerto Rico during 2009. It was released October 28, 2011.
18/06/2013 at 6:36 pm
[…] on the novel by Hunter S Thompson, Johnny Depp stars as Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist who joins a newspaper […]