Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals!?! Eckhart, Heard and Jenkins join Depp in RUM DIARY!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I heard there was a lot of activity around this project at the European Film Market... I mean, why not? A movie starring Johnny Depp can't be all that hard to sell to foreign markets, right? I'm an unabashed die hard fan of FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. That came out the same year as THE BIG LEBOWSKI and both films were criminally dismissed by audiences and critics alike. I fell in love with both instantly and saw them multiple time in the theaters and have since watched them both dozens of times on DVD. FEAR AND LOATHING is one of my comfort movies. So, I've been waiting for ages for Depp to return to Hunter S. Thompson territory and it looks like it's finally happening. Depp will play Paul Kemp, a '50s journalist in Puerto Rico and they also have lined up Aaron Eckhart to play Kemp's rival for the affections of Ms. Amber Heard (hottie-bo-bottie). THE VISITOR and BURN AFTER READING's Richard Jenkins will be Kemp's boss at the paper, a guy named Lotterman. I remember there being a rumor a while back that Benicio del Toro was actually going to direct this adaptation. I don't see any mention of that in the Hollywood Reporter article, but we do get Bruce Robinson behind the camera. If you've seen WITHNAIL & I you know why that's great news. Filming begins at the end of March. Thoughts?