johnny depp is amazing

Hunter Thompson’s book, The Rum Dairy, is being made into a motion picture starring Johnny Depp, Josh Hartnett, Benicio Del Toro and Nick Nolte.

Here’s the plot summary from imdb.com:
“Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s.”

This is very exciting, but sad at the same time. I wonder how involved Hunter was with this project. The movie is supposed to come out this year.