"He didn't know where it was and I pulled it out and he was like, 'Jesus Christ.' We read it together at three in the morning and it was, 'We should do this together,' but Hunter didn't exactly fill his end of the deal. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan. Johnny Depp, first unleashed as Raoul Duke in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, resumes his role as Hunter S. "I remember when I unearthed the manuscript out of a box in his basement," Depp recalled for the Radio Times. Filming on Rum Diary began on location in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Hollywood in early 2009. Thompson eventually completed the novel, which was released in 1999. Thompson had composed a screenplay for "The Run Diary," based on a long-lost book that the journalist started writing at age 22 in 1959. The young journalist Jack Kemp leaves New York to work at a reputable paper in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he becomes embroiled in a boozy love affair. "It was the one promise I made to Hunter, apart from shooting him out of a cannon," Depp told the Radio Times, laughing, in reference to the explosive way he spread the counterculture icon's ashes following his passing and memorial. In an interview for Depp's 2011 film "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie "On Stranger Tides," Depp told the Radio Times that "The Rum Diary" - also released in 2011- was the result of a pledge he made to Thompson before his death in 2005.
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