p"Now all of this may look like some crazed hallucination," Johnny Depp, as Hunter S. Thompson stand-in Paul Kemp, says, "but it's all true... I think."/p pAnd so it goes in this long-awaited big screen version of "The Rum Diary," Depp's latest film adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson novel. The film, which sat on the shelf for a while, has a roundabout history that, in a very minor way, resembles that of the book; the semi-fictional story about Thompson's time in Puerto Rico as a young journalist began being written in 1958, but went unpublished until 1998. /p pDepp, as Kemp, plays an alcoholic journalist who starts kicking around San Juan, Puerto Rico, writing for a failing local paper and taking LSD. It was a fearful, doomsday description of what Thompson worried he may become in the early stages of his career, though, obviously, his real life success far exceeded that of his nervous projection. /p pThe film also stars Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Giovanni Ribisi and Richard Jenkins, and hits theaters October 28th./p pstrongWATCH/strong:br / iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://youtube.com/embed/-m0yqS3jodU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen/iframe/p

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