Cinema Science

Johnny Depp is returning to the role of Hunter S. Thompson, sort of. He will produce and star in an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's autobiographical 1959 book The Rum Diaries. Depp will play Paul Kemp, a freelance newspaper journalist in 1950s Puerto Rico who is surrounded by a group of self-destructive lost souls. Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I) will write and direct the adaptation. Depp just finished shooting Sweeny Todd and is expected to start work on Rum Diaries after he wraps Shantaram, Mira Nair's adaptation of the novel about an Australian drug addict who returns to a life of crime after escaping to India.