Johnny Depp, whose face has remained freakishly pristine, has been actively working on an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary since 2007, and a movie version of some kind has been in the works since 2000. But the wait is over! Depp stars as Paul Kemp, a journalist who goes to Puerto Rico in the fifties — presumably on an assignment, though one wonders whether that assignment is to be a boozy but enchanting cad. If so, assignment complete. He falls in with the about-to-be-everywhere Amber Heard and tries to take down Aaron Eckhart, who, based on this trailer, appears to be an evil turtle-bedazzler. [Movieline]
