Other documentaries by Gibney include Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2003), Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer (2010), Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012), and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015). Thompson on Film (2006).īut, perhaps, the defining documentary on Thompson is Academy-Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney’s Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Some of these include Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (1978), an extended television profile that aired on the BBC, as well as Wayne Ewing’s Breakfast with Hunter (2003), and Tom Thurman’s Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. There have been a number of documentaries over the years that extensively chronicle his exploits. Thompson’s appearances on the big screen are not limited to feature films. Though Thompson began the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name in 1959, “The Rum Diary” wasn’t published until 1998, when Depp himself discovered it amongst Thompson’s papers. Written for the screen and directed by Bruce Robinson ( Withnail and I (1987)), The Rum Diary stars Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp, a failed author who lands a job writing for a newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Thompson and portraying him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp starred in another adaptation based on a novel by the former Rolling Stone journalist: The Rum Diary (2011). This comedic autobiographical film is a heavily fictionalized account of the writer’s attempt to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 U.S presidential election.Īfter meeting Hunter S. Where the Buffalo Roam is based on articles “The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat” and “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,” both of which Thompson published for Rolling Stone magazine. Thompson and Peter Boyle ( Young Frankenstein (1974), Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)) as Carl Lazlo, Esq., a character heavily inspired by Thompson’s real-life attorney Oscar Zeta. Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) stars Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson’s alter ego Raoul Duke, the hard partying gonzo journalist has appeared on the silver screen several other times. Aside from Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), which stars Johnny Depp as Hunter S.
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