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Johnny Depp in "The Rum Diary"
POSTED ON 05/19/05 AT 11:30 P.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

Variety reports that Johnny Depp will once again play the late Hunter S. Thompson in "The Rum Diary," to which Bruce Robinson ("The Killing Fields) will adapt and direct. Depp is also an executive producer on the project.

Depp played Thompson in another film adaptation based on a Thompson novel, "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas." "The Rum Diary" was an autobiographical novel of Thompson's circling around his drinking and carousing in Puerto Rico in the late 1950s.

He is expected to begin production on the film after he finishes filming on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels.