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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American black comedy adventure film based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name.It was co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam and stars Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro as Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, respectively.
] Art Linson's 1980 film Where the Buffalo Roam starring Bill Murray and Peter Boyle is based on a number of Thompson's stories, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In 1989, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was almost made by director Terry Gilliam when he was given a script by illustrator Ralph Steadman. Gilliam, however, felt that the ...
He also starred in: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) as Hunter S. Thompson, The Ninth Gate (1999) as Dean Corso, and Sleepy Hollow (1999) as Ichabod Crane. In the early 2000s, he appeared in the romance Chocolat (2000), crime film Blow (2001), action film Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), drama Finding Neverland (2004), and horror films ...
It is included as a special feature on the second disc of the 2004 Criterion Collection DVD release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and labeled as Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood. According to his widow, Anita, the $3 million funeral was funded by actor Johnny Depp, who was a close friend of Thompson's.
The 1998 film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which he is portrayed by Johnny Depp. Author and character creator Hunter S. Thompson portrays an older Duke in a cameo in the Matrix flashback scene where Duke sees himself.
Depp was a fan and friend of writer Hunter S. Thompson, and played his alter ego Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Terry Gilliam's film adaptation of Thompson's pseudo-biographical novel of the same name. [a] It was a box-office failure [60] and polarized critics. [61] Later that year, Depp made a brief cameo in Mika ...
In Nevada, Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said the parallels between the two events are "very strange similarities to have."
The name of the album was lifted from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, [11] a book based on a Gonzo Journalism account of author Hunter S. Thompson’s trip to Las Vegas to cover the Mint 400 - a desert race held yearly just outside Las Vegas. It was also a 1998 film directed by Terry Gilliam featuring Johnny Depp.