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From TMC
TV's Amaury Nolasco joins cast of new Johnny Depp film
San Juan, Mar 25Actor Amaury Nolasco, featured in the Fox Television series "Prison Break", arrived in his native Puerto Rico on Wednesday to join the cast of "The Rum Diary," a film starring Johnny Depp.
Nolasco said in a press release that he felt "doubly happy" about the chance to combine business with pleasure.
"The Rum Diary" is based on the book of the same name by late "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson, recounting his experiences living in Puerto Rico in the 1950s.
Shooting on the movie is set to begin next Monday on the Caribbean island.
Depp also portrayed Thompson in the 1998 film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," with Puerto Rico's Benicio del Toro as his co-star.
Nolasco joins a cast that includes Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins and Gavin Houston.
"None of them will leave Puerto Rico without a little piece of our flavor," Nolasco said of his colleagues.
Directed by Bruce Robinson, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "The Killing Fields," the new film is being produced by Depp, Christi Dembrowski and Graham King, whose credits include "The Departed," "The Aviator" and "Gangs of New York." EFE jm/dr Copyright ? 2009 EFE News Services (U.S.) Inc.
From Variety
Giovanni Ribisi
By STACY DODDGiovanni Ribisi has been added to the cast of Warner Independent’s “The Rum Diary,” starring Johnny Depp. He’ll play a carousing journo in the Hunter S. Thompson adaptation.
Thesp will next be seen in “Public Enemies” and “Avatar
From Bonnie first posted at JDZ - photos of Johnny in Puerto Rico
Found by emma at Vocero
March 12, 2009 04:00 amThe film "Rum Diary", starring Johnny Depp, is scheduled to start filming in Puerto Rico on Monday, March 30 with a view to concluding June 5.
From The New Day(translation by fretranslations.com)
Johnny Depp may need 800 ExtrasBy María Ivette Vega Calles
Johnny Depp is in search of a battalion of more than 800 local extras for the movie "The Rum Diary", that will begin to roll in the Island March 30.
If this calls him the attention know that for the film -set in the decade of the 60 in Puerto Rico and St. Thomas- people of all the ages with different physical characteristics are sought.
The hearings will be carried out today and next Saturday in the academy of modeling Models Factory, where expect people with American, latin American characteristics and of the black race.
In the tape, Depp will embody an American journalist that works in a newspaper of San Juan. File
"The production is going to catch 814 people through our bank of talent. They seek 480 people of color, 200 with latin American characteristics and 100 with American characteristics", affirmed Jorge Columbus, who next to Frances López and Edgard Gil, they are in charge of the tests.
Both days, the "castings" they will be carried out among 10:00 to.m. and 5:00 p.m. The people interested should respond to the academy, located in the Walk of it Adhere, #25 (high), in Manatee. For more information, them interested they can call to the (787) 904-8862 ó (787) 452-1158.
On the other hand, the production will do other hearings tomorrow, of 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., in the Hotel Marriot of County. There also people of all the ages will be sought that Americans seem and puerto Ricans in general.
"The Rum Diary" is vaguely based on the experiences of the writer Hunter S. Thompson as the journalist in Puerto Rico at the end of the decade of the 50. Depp will embody the personage of Paul Kemp, a reporter that labors next to a heterogeneous and self-destructive team of work of a newspaper of San Juan.
Bruce Robinson, director of the film, he will arrive at the Island this week next to his assistant.
From IF Magazine
AARON ECKHART JOINS 'RUM DIARY' ADAPTATION
THE VISITOR's Richard Jenkins has also been cast
By CHARLENE CHENG, News Editor
Published 2/12/2009
LOCATION: Puerto RicoTHE SKINNY: Aaron Eckhart and Johnny Depp in the same film? The fangirls are going to have a field day with this one.
The DARK KNIGHT actor has just signed on to join Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in the big screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's RUM DIARY. Oscar nom Richard Jenkins is on board as well.
DIARY follows a hard-drinking journalist named Paul Kemp (Depp) in 1950s Puerto Rico. Eckhart's character Sanderson competes with Kemp for Heard's attention. Jenkins plays the man who oversees the newspaper where Kemp works.
Bruce Robinson is adapting and directing, while Depp, Christi Dembrowski, and Graham King are producing.
Found by emma
The Film Programme13 Feb 2009, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only)
Francine Stock talks to Bruce Robinson, the writer and director of cult favourite Withnail and I, as he prepares to make his first movie for 17 years, The Rum Diary.
Broadcasts:
13 Feb 200916:30BBC Radio 4 (FM only)
15 Feb 200923:02BBC Radio 4
From The Independent
Screen Talk: A rum do for Depp
by Stuart Kemp of The Hollywood Reporter
Friday, 6 February 2009Fans of gonzo journalism will be pleased that a long-gestating adaptation of Hunter S Thompson's 'The Rum Diary' is due to begin shooting next month.
It has been scripted and will be directed by Bruce Robinson ('Withnail and I'). It's the story of a reporter who travels to a Caribbean island and becomes embroiled in drinking, romance and crazy news stories. Johnny Depp stars. 'The Rum Diary' hopes to attract buyers at the European Film Market, starting today at the Berlin International Film Festival.
From MTV
Amber Heard Takes A Swing From Johnny Depp’s ‘Rum Diaries’
Published by Elisabeth Rappe on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 11:23 am.Johnny DeppJohnny Depp’s “The Rum Diaries” seems to have been stuck in pre-production for ages now (since 2003 if you want to be really precise), but it may have just gotten a big push forward. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amber Heard is in negotiations to costar with Depp in the Hunter S. Thompson adaptation.
Directed by Bruce Robinson, “Diaries” is the story of a washed-up, hard drinking journalist named Paul Kemp. Heard will play Chenault, who becomes the center of a love triangle between Kemp and his fellow journalist Sanderson, a part which has yet to be cast. She’s Sanderson’s free-spirited girlfriend, but cheats with Kemp, and tries to convince him to run away with her.
The role has reportedly been coveted by actresses from Keira Knightley to Scarlett Johansson, though the nudity required has caused a few big names to shy away from the part. But Heard (who apparently spends all of “The Informers” in her birthday suit) isn’t daunted by the nudity requirement — and I imagine a few of our readers would be willing to strip too if it meant getting to share scenes with Depp.
Heard is quickly on her way to becoming a household name — and has already had quite a week in the trades, as she was just announced as the lead in John Carpenter’s “The Ward,” and also has a cameo in Woody Harrelson’s “Zombieland.”
Readers, are you hoping Heard’s addition finally gets “The Rum Diaries” off the ground, so we can have some dramatic Depp?
From Filmofilia
Johnny Depp Makes “Rum Diary” His Next Film
Posted by Allan Ford 14 January, 2009Johnny DeppFrom The Bad and the Ugly comes word that Johnny Depp’s next project may take him to 1950s Puerto Rico for an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s “The Rum Diary.”
“The Rum Diary” focuses on divorced and alcoholic novelist Paul Kemp (Depp) as he becomes involved in a complicated love triangle at the run-down newspaper in Puerto Rico where he has just been employed. Kemp is based on the late gonzo writer Thompson’s experiences as a 22-year-old.
The project has been in development for a while, with Bruce Robinson (of The Killing Fields, Jennifer Eight ) set to write and direct with a tentative start date of March.
Depp previously starred in the big screen adaptation of Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
Depp will be seen later this year in “Public Enemies” and “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.” He will also star in Tim Burton’s new take on “Alice in Wonderland.”
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