Hunter S. Thompson work eyed for film

[The Straight Story]

Hunter S. Thompson work eyed for film

One of Hunter S. Thompson's last works has been picked up for feature treatment that could see Thompson onscreen again, this time as a crusader for justice.

Motion Picture Corporation of America, led by CEO Brad Krevoy, has acquired rights to "Prisoner of Denver," a June 2004 Vanity Fair article co-written by Thompson and the magazine's contributing editor Mark Seal.

"Prisoner" focused on the injustice and abuse of Colorado's legal system that saw 21-year-old Lisl Auman charged with murder when the crime occurred while she was in the back of a patrol car, already in police custody. She was handed a life sentence with no possibility of parole.

While behind bars, she began a correspondence with Thompson. His unrelenting grass-roots activism -- which included enlisting celebrity pals including Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro and Woody Harrelson -- and the Vanity Fair piece helped overturn Auman's sentence in 2005.

....

Thompson committed suicide before the case was overturned.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i7b2c50df9c8f86ff0a80a49d4bd9e682

[ShortnFiery]

1. FWIW, some reputable people believe that Hunter Thompson was "suicided." eom

[MilesColtrane]

2. All I know is that anyone who would agree to infiltrate the Owl Farm and off the Doctor is either...

brainless or has enormous testicles.

It's not like HST was inadequately armed and trusting of his fellow man.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Conspiracies spring eternal from the human mind

[ShortnFiery]

5. I find it an interesting correlation: At the time people are eyeball-deep in the investigation

of government/private sector corruption, the likelihood of their SUICIDE rises exponentially.

Go figure. :(

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. The one I would like to see someone take on is The Song of the Sausage Creature

Saw it done as slide show coordinated with a reading once. Was just awesome.

http://www.ssegal.com/files/SausageCreature.pdf