Y7hH8/hqdefault.jpg' alt='The Rum Diary Wiki' title='The Rum Diary Wiki' />The Rum Diary film Wikipedia. The Rum Diary is a 2. American film based on the novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson. The film was written and directed by Bruce Robinson and stars Johnny Depp. The Rum Diary Reviews. All Critics Top Critics. Intriguing performances help The Rum Diary successfully capture the spirit of the source. For the most part. The Rum Diary Film Wikipedia. Rhum express rum diary. Watch the martian movie online free full hd. Filming began in Puerto Rico in March 2. It was released on October 2. Paul Kemp is an author who hasnt been able to sell a book. He gets a job at a newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There, he meets Sala, who gets him acclimatized and tells him he thinks the newspaper will fold soon. Kemp checks into a hotel and while idling about on a boat in the sea, meets Chenault, who is skinny dipping while avoiding a Union Carbide party. The-Rum-Diary-vs-Fear-and-Loathing-in-Las-Vegas1.jpg' alt='The Diary Full Movie' title='The Diary Full Movie' />Kemp is immediately smitten with her. Kemp and Sala immediately go on a drinking binge, which earns Kemp the enmity of his editor, Lotterman. Kemp also meets Moburg, a deadbeat reporter who cant be fired. While waiting for an interview, Kemp meets Sanderson, a freelance realtor, who offers him a job writing ads for his latest venture. Sanderson is engaged to Chenault, who pretends not to know Kemp. Later, Kemp moves in with Sala, who also rooms with Moburg. Kemp begins to see the poverty of San Juan, but Lotterman doesnt want him to write about it, as its bad for tourism. The Rum Diary Movie TrailerThe Rum Diary OnlineMoburg returns with leftover filters from a rum plant they contain high proof alcohol. Moburg has been fired, and rants about killing Lotterman. Kemp visits Sanderson and spies him making love to Chenault. He meets Zimburger and Segarra, who want him to help with a real estate scam. Later, Sala and Kemp go to a restaurant and berate the owner for refusing them service Kemp senses that the owner wants to kill them, and he and Sala beat a hasty retreat, pursued by angry locals. The police arrive and break up the fight, then throw Sala and Kemp in jail. Sanderson bails them out. The next day, Kemp meets with Sandersons crew, who tell him that the US military is relinquishing the lease on some prime real estate, and is asked to pick up Chenault from her house. Kemp and Chenault share a moment, but resist temptation. Zimburger takes Kemp and Sala to see the island property, then they head to St. Thomas for Carnival. Kemp finds Chenault, and they wind up on Sandersons boat. Sanderson berates Kemp for involving Sala in the deal. At night, they go to a club, and a drunk Chenault dances with local men to provoke Sanderson, with whom she has been fighting. The owners of the bar beat up Sanderson and throw Kemp out of the club. Chenault is left behind at the bar, but where she ends up is not known. The next day, Chenault is gone, and Sanderson tells Kemp that their business arrangement is over. When Sala and Kemp return home, Moburg tells them that Lotterman has left and that the paper will go out of business. He also sells them hallucinogens, which they take. Kemp has an epiphany while under the influence, and resolves to write an expos on Sandersons shady deals. Lotterman returns, but wont publish Kemps story. Chenault shows up at Kemps place, after Sanderson disowns her. Out of spite, Sanderson withdraws his bail, meaning that Kemp and Sala are now wanted by the police. Moburg also tells them that Lotterman has closed the paper. Kemp decides to print a last issue, telling the truth about Lotterman and Sanderson, as well as the stories Lotterman declined. Watch The Channel Online Mic. To make money to print the last edition, Kemp, Sala and Moburg place a big cockfighting bet. They visit Papa Nebo, Moburgs hermaphrodite witch doctor, to lay a blessing on Salas prize cockerel. They win, but return to the office to find that the printing presses have been confiscated. Kemp continues his quest, leaving Puerto Rico on a sailboat. The end credits explain that Kemp makes it back to New York, marries Chenault, and becomes a successful journalist, having finally found his voice as a writer. ProductioneditHunter S. Thompson wrote the novel The Rum Diary in 1. The independent production companies Shooting Gallery and SPi Films sought to adapt the novel into a film in 2. Johnny Depp was signed to star and to serve as executive producer. Nick Nolte was also signed to star alongside Depp. The project did not move past the development stage. During this stage, the author became so frustrated as to fire off an obscenity laden letter calling the process a waterhead fuckaround. In 2. Benicio del Toro and Josh Hartnett were signed to star in the film adaptation. The second incarnation also did not move past the development stage. In 2. Graham King acquired all rights to the novel and sought to film the adaptation under Warner Independent Pictures. Depp, who previously starred in the 1. Thompsons novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was cast as the freelance journalist Paul Kemp. Amber Heard is reported to have been preferred over Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley. Bruce Robinson joined to write the screenplay and to direct The Rum Diary. In 2. Depps production company Infinitum Nihil took on the project with the financial backing of King and his production company GK Films. Principal photography began in Puerto Rico on March 2. Composer Christopher Young signed on to compose the films soundtrack. Robinson had been sober for six and a half years before he started writing the screenplay for The Rum Diary. The filmmaker found himself suffering from writers block. He started drinking a bottle of wine a day until he finished the script and then he quit drinking again. He spent a year filming in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Hollywood and resisted drinking until the crew arrived in Fajardo. Robinson remembers, It was 1. Everyones drenched in sweat. One of the prop guys goes by with a barrow load of ice and Coronas. I said Johnny, this doesnt mean anything. And reached for a Corona. Some savage drinking took place. When I was no longer in Johnnys environment I went back to sobriety. In regard to playing the character of Kemp, Depp compared and related it to his previous role in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He said The way I approached it was that the character of Paul Kemp is Raoul Duke as he was learning to speak. It was like playing the same character, only 1. This guys got something theres an energy burning underneath it, its just ready to pop up, shoot out. ReceptioneditThe Rum Diary received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 5. The websites consensus is, Its colorful and amiable enough, and Depps heart is clearly in the right place, but The Rum Diary fails to add sufficient focus to its rambling source material. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 1. Cinema. Score polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a C on an A to F scale. Wyatt Williams, writing for Creative Loafing, argues that the movie version amounts to Thompsons whole vision of journalism, glossed and made plain by Hollywood. See alsoeditReferenceseditFleming, Mike March 2. Johnny Depps Second Hunter Thompson Pic, Rum Diary, Lands At Film. District. Deadline. Retrieved 2. 01. 2 0. The Rum Diary 1. Bruce Robinson. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 2. 01. 1 1. The Rum Diary 2. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 1, 2. Kaufman, Amy October 2. Movie Projector Puss in Boots to stomp on competition. Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved October 2. Red Rock Episode 83. GK Films and Infinitum Nihils The Rum Diary Lands at Filmdistrict. Retrieved March 2. Tilly, Chris December 2. Depp opens Rum Diary. Time Out. Retrieved April 2, 2. Goldstein, Gregg July 3. Depp toasts Hunter S. Thompson with Rum Diary. Reuters.  Okay, you lazy bitch. Letters of Note. 2. Retrieved 2. 01. 2 0. The Rum Diary Now Filming. IGN. April 2, 2. 00. Retrieved April 2, 2. Christopher Young to score The Rum Diary. Movie. Score Magazine. October 9, 2. 00. Retrieved 2. 00. 9 1. Chalmers, Robert February 2. Bruce Robinson I started drinking again because of The Rum Diary. The Independent. Retrieved 2. The Rum Diary 2. Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved November 7, 2.