I think Hollywood should just make five films every year:

Romantic Comedy
Horror
Period Romantic Drama
Comedy
Action

They can all star the same people and be the same basic film. Think of the time and money it can save. Hollywood can even outsource the writing to China to save some cash.

There ARE other Hunter S Thompson books that can be adapted into movies. eg: "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail"

schattenteufel: There ARE other Hunter S Thompson books that can be adapted into movies. eg: "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail"

Yea I hear you on that one. Not sure why they're squandering an opportunity to expose audiences to more HST work. That book or The Rum Diaries would make for good movies. I don't want to see a John Cusack and Seth Rogen version of Fear and Loathing in LV

It's not like anything else Hunter Thompson wrote before the book weren't exercises in trying to get the formula right and then afterwards just running it into the ground.

This is good news to high school and college students who just discovered drug culture and need an entry level hero to look up to. You'll never hear a semi-literate English major pronounce that Bukowski was just "wack" while taking drags off a hookah in the public park.

Farkin A Bubba: Johnny Depp should make "The Curse of Lono" - John Cusack is dead to me after "2012" and "Hot Tub Time Machine"- are you kidding me?

How was Hot Tub Time Machine, anyway?

Rev.K: xraycat: That book or The Rum Diaries would make for good movies.

They are making The Rum Diary. I've been waiting like 8 years for this. (new window)

Nice! Johnny Depp, how unsurprised I am. And that guy that hates Avatars is in it.

Fark Showbiz tab is out of headlines, Monday Edition:

John Cusack's friend, but not necessarily John Cusack as the headline implies, makes vague and unspecific drug addled comments (that in no way resemble a plan that he has discussed with anyone or indeed the basic coherence of an idea that he has explored to any degree) about wanting to make a movie version of a stage version of the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

xraycat: schattenteufel: There ARE other Hunter S Thompson books that can be adapted into movies. eg: "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail"

Yea I hear you on that one. Not sure why they're squandering an opportunity to expose audiences to more HST work. That book or The Rum Diaries would make for good movies. I don't want to see a John Cusack and Seth Rogen version of Fear and Loathing in LV

I wouldn't mind seeing Johnny Depp in a Hell's Angels in the style of Fear and Loathing, or even a script derived from the Great Shark Hunt/GSH volume 2/Generation of Swine/Kingdom of Fear/etc.

salvador.hardin: Fark Showbiz tab is out of headlines, Monday Edition:

John Cusack's friend, but not necessarily John Cusack as the headline implies, makes vague and unspecific drug addled comments (that in no way resemble a plan that he has discussed with anyone or indeed the basic coherence of an idea that he has explored to any degree) about wanting to make a movie version of a stage version of the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

There is a Fark Politics Tab for you to air your butthurt.

Why Do You Capitalize Words That Don't Need To Be?

/it, and, or, of, the

I guess we'll just have to cut their heads off and bury them some where.

/If ever there was a movie that nailed it the first time and does not need to be remade. It's this film.
//I can't even read the book with out picturing johnny depp talking.

*rolls up newspaper and smacks John Cusack in the nose* NO! That's a BAD CUSACK! NO!

Rev.K: s1ugg0: I guess we'll just have to cut their heads off and bury them some where.

because it goes without saying that we can't turn him loose.

He'd report us at once to some sort of outback Nazi law enforcement agency and they'd run us down like dogs.

Jesus, did I say that, or just think it? Was I talking? DID THEY HEAR ME?!

/oh how I lol'd

First time I saw that movie I was "broadening my horizons". It was epic.

The "Hollywood is out of ideas" headline is getting stale

FeedTheCollapse: Rum Dairy needs to come out first.


am I alone in thinking that once Christina Ricci shows up, you can pretty much turn off Fear and Loathing? Everything before that is great, but after that it gets tedious.

No more of that talk or I'll put the leeches on you!

lostinspace1978: The "Hollywood is out of ideas" headline is getting stale

FARK subbies are out of ideas.

salvador.hardin: Fark Showbiz tab is out of headlines, Monday Edition:

John Cusack's friend, but not necessarily John Cusack as the headline implies, makes vague and unspecific drug addled comments (that in no way resemble a plan that he has discussed with anyone or indeed the basic coherence of an idea that he has explored to any degree) about wanting to make a movie version of a stage version of the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Hey, what the hell do you think you are doing? This is a "Hollywood is out of ideas" thread. Silly facts like this are not allowed.

Now come on, grab your pitchfork and torch!

schattenteufel: lostinspace1978: The "Hollywood is out of ideas" headline is getting stale

FARK subbies are out of ideas.

They're making a movie about that.

It's all over myself.

FTFA:
I would love to have a shot at redoing that movie because we really love the Hunter S. Thompson esthetic.

Anyone who would let those words come from his mouth does not deserve any serious consideration. I still remember the scene in Breakfast with Hunter where HST throws Alex (I'm a genius!) Cox out on his worthless ass. "The Hunter S. Thompson esthetic"! DIAF ...


Also FTFA:
We revised our own adaptation of it and did the American stage production, which ran in Chicago for a couple of months when we had a theater company together.

So, this ran for "a couple of months" in Chicago and now this idiot thinks it's worthy of a Hollywood remake? Well, sure, why not?

fenrael23: They're making a movie about that.

New keyboard and cup of tea please.

A trial balloon. Filled with nitrous. Ready to be blown apart with a shotgun. Like HST's head.

If you want to do Thompson so bad then do Hells Angels. There's some great material in there. Sonny Barger alone is a big enough personality for his own movie.

schattenteufel: There ARE other Hunter S Thompson books that can be adapted into movies. eg: "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Oregon Trail"


FTFM. Wouldn't that make a better movie?

xraycat: salvador.hardin: Fark Showbiz tab is out of headlines, Monday Edition:

John Cusack's friend, but not necessarily John Cusack as the headline implies, makes vague and unspecific drug addled comments (that in no way resemble a plan that he has discussed with anyone or indeed the basic coherence of an idea that he has explored to any degree) about wanting to make a movie version of a stage version of the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

There is a Fark Politics Tab for you to air your butthurt.

Hey Pal, I will air my butthurt in every Tab.

I will also, as is the case here, point out simple stupidity that doesn't so much hurt my butt as my brain. Slightly misleading for purposes of humor is a fine, fine thing. But wildly misleading for clickies is just boring.

Robot Devil's Advocate: schattenteufel: There ARE other Hunter S Thompson books that can be adapted into movies. eg: "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Oregon Trail"


FTFM. Wouldn't that make a better movie?

We can't stop here! This is dysentery country!

Obscure Login: Robot Devil's Advocate: schattenteufel: There ARE other Hunter S Thompson books that can be adapted into movies. eg: "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Oregon Trail"


FTFM. Wouldn't that make a better movie?

We can't stop here! This is dysentery country!

If you listen closely, you can hear the banshees screaming for (40 lbs of) buffalo meat. Jesus God, man.

I've always thought that Great Shark Hunt and perhaps Kentucky Derby would translate well on film. However, I believe it was HST's wish that only Depp play him or his alter egos on film. Despite the fact that I like Cusack, he's just no Raoul Duke.

Guntram Shatterhand: Obscure Login: Robot Devil's Advocate: schattenteufel: There ARE other Hunter S Thompson books that can be adapted into movies. eg: "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Oregon Trail"


FTFM. Wouldn't that make a better movie?

We can't stop here! This is dysentery country!

If you listen closely, you can hear the banshees screaming for (40 lbs of) buffalo meat. Jesus God, man.

Did you see what the oooxen just did to us, man?

Cusack should cut back on the reefer, really. John, you have a problem.

thamike: I've always thought that Great Shark Hunt and perhaps Kentucky Derby would translate well on film. However, I believe it was HST's wish that only Depp play him or his alter egos on film. Despite the fact that I like Cusack, he's just no Raoul Duke.

Didn't Depp live in HST's basement for a while before filming Fear and Loathing? I can only imagine the experience.

Kozmopoliskepticalopsis: FTFA:
I would love to have a shot at redoing that movie because we really love the Hunter S. Thompson esthetic.

Anyone who would let those words come from his mouth does not deserve any serious consideration. I still remember the scene in Breakfast with Hunter where HST throws Alex (I'm a genius!) Cox out on his worthless ass. "The Hunter S. Thompson esthetic"! DIAF ...




He would do anything wild if it was in front of a camera. But given the opportunity to feed his overactive attention gland I guarantee you he would agree to making anything in the "HST aesthetic".

Your hair is a bat, your argument is invalid.

bush: Didn't Depp live in HST's basement for a while before filming Fear and Loathing? I can only imagine the experience.

He's written about it. It's pretty hilarious. Apparently, Thompson would take no less than 20 minutes to salt and pepper his food, usually an hour.

bush: thamike: I've always thought that Great Shark Hunt and perhaps Kentucky Derby would translate well on film. However, I believe it was HST's wish that only Depp play him or his alter egos on film. Despite the fact that I like Cusack, he's just no Raoul Duke.

Didn't Depp live in HST's basement for a while before filming Fear and Loathing? I can only imagine the experience.

Depp would follow his every move. When Hunter was driving Depp would pretend to drive from the passenger seat. It was absurd.

Hunter had the Red shark from the movie till the day he died.

T.M.S.: Depp would follow his every move. When Hunter was driving Depp would pretend to drive from the passenger seat. It was absurd.

Rum, peyote, and general mania will do that.

Another Government Employee: A trial balloon. Filled with nitrous. Ready to be blown apart with a shotgun. Like HST's head.

If I hung out with Cusack for more than an hour, I'd probably shoot myself too.