Amber Heard and Johnny Depp Flirt in New Image from The Rum Diary

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Johnny Depp has some time on his hands right now, with The Lone Ranger being cancelled in the early stages of production. You can read our original take on the story here, as well as my commentary on it. But it’s not too early to discuss a film he’s already completed, The Rum Diary.

GK Films has released its first image of Depp and Amber Heard in The Rum Diary, based off the Hunter S. Thompson novel of the same name. Aaron Eckhardt, Richard Jenkins, Michael Rispoli and Giovanni Ribisi also star.

Plot Summary: “The Rum Diary is a GK Film, Infinitum Nihil and Film Engine production starring Johnny Depp. Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson which initiated his long, distinguished and brilliantly unpredictable career, The Rum Diary tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp). Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, the San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Jenkins).

Adopting the rum-soaked life of the late-’50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes increasingly obsessed with Chenault (Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Eckhart), a businessman involved in shady property development deals.”