Seventeen years later – after a great deal of development time – Depp had the opportunity to enter the journalist’s skin once again for director Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary in 2011 (under the moniker Paul Kemp).
To date, Johnny Depp has had the opportunity to play the father of Gonzo Journalism twice – the first before Hunter S. Thompson’s death, and the second after.
Sadly, the second effort wasn’t quite as successful as the original, but at least he had the opportunity to make it as a passion project.
As mentioned earlier , Depp first channeled Thompson as Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – paired up with Benicio Del Toro as the mad Oscar Zeta Acosta a.k.a.