That’s the price you pay when dealing with Hunter Thompson”. “He was such a fucking pain in the ass, but we got there in the end. “On the first take he didn’t even look up when he was supposed to because he was too busy talking to her,” Gilliam said. Gilliam recalled that he had to team up with Depp and the producer to be able to manage Thompson, calling him a “recalcitrant sheep” that had to be corralled. According to Gilliam, the only way that Thompson ended up listening was when they got the “best looking female extra” to persuade him to do the acting bit. The director also stated that Thompson only came on set once but even that was hell because he allegedly threw bread rolls everywhere during filming and refused to go on for his part. Gilliam claimed that after Thompson entered, he wanted to take everyone’s attention away from the making of the film and towards himself. The book chronicles the story of journalist Raoul Duke and his attorney. One interesting source of disruption was Thompson himself who came to the set for his cameo as an older version of his own semi-fictionalised, semi-autobiographical protagonist Raoul Duke. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1971 novel by American author Hunter S. The director once revealed that there was no proper budget when he had started working on the project and that there was a lot of chaos surrounding the making of the film, including disputes with the Writers Guild of America over screenplay credits. In addition to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas being a critical and commercial failure, the production was an especially difficult process for Gilliam and his team.
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