I read an interview with Hunter S Thompson

and he said that he met and became friends with Benecio Del Torro after the actor played Dr. Gonzo/An Alternate Aspect of Thompson's Personality/Thompson's friend Oscar Zeta Acosta in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
In any case, it looks as if Del Torro is going to be directing a film adaptation of the the novel The Rum Diary staring Johnny Depp, Nick Nolte, Josh Hartnett and himself!
I guess that this news is about a year old, but I still think that it is interesting. Furthermore, I think that it is interesting that in the previous news link, The Rum Diary is described as a follow up to the "hit," Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. F.a.L.i.L.V. was, as it happens, an 18 and a half million dollar movie that grossed ten and half million at the box office. Also it implies that Fear and Loathing was a novel, and not an act of radical genre crushing journalism. But nit picking shit like that just makes me look like a nerd.