Trailer for THE RUM DIARY starring Johnny Depp

Here is the first trailer from Bruce Robinson's The Rum Diary, which is based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel. The film stars Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp a divorced alcoholic who heads down to San Juan to work as a journalist for the newspaper. The film has a great supporting cast that includes Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Amber Heard, and Giovanni Ribisi. 

Check out the trailer below and share your thoughts:

Synopsis:

The Rum Diary” tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp). Tired 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 San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman (Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenault (Heard) and her fiancée Sanderson (Eckhart), a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

The Rum Diary arrives in theaters on October 28th. I enjoy Depp in these types of roles much more than Pirates of the Caribbean. What are your thoughts?