| Gonzo is the
definitive film biography of Hunter Thompson, a mythic American figure,
a man that Tom Wolfe called our “greatest comic writer,” the man that
launched a thousand sips of bourbon, endless snorts of cocaine and a
brash, irreverent, fearless style of journalism - named “gonzo” after an
anarchic blues riff by James Booker. Gonzo is directed by Alex
Gibney, the Academy Award nominated director of Enron: the Smartest
Guys in the Room and the director of the Academy Award winning
documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side. While Gibney shaped the
screen story, every narrated word in the film springs from the
typewriters of Thompson himself. Those words are given life by Johnny
Depp, the actor who once shadowed Thompson’s every move for the screen
version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and who bankrolled
Thompson’s spectacular funeral (photographed for this film) in which the
good doctor’s ashes were fired from a rocket launcher mounted with a
towering two-thumbed fist whose palm held a giant peyote button. |
