Pity Johnny Depp. Last year he came to Cannes with his first film as a director, The Brave, which was mostly reviled by the critics and has yet to be released. This year he turned up as the star of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, which has received terrible reviews.
At the post-screening press conference he said he plans to direct another film if only "to steal two and a half hours" from the lives of the critics who savaged The Brave. And he is reediting The Brave, he said, and hopes to see it finally go into distribution later this year.
Depp also talked about meeting Hunter S. Thompson, the notorious author of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: "The first time I met him he was wielding a Taser (a self-defence weapon) and a cattle prod. He hit me on the head with the cattle prod."
Hunter S. Thompson and Johnny Depp at the New York premiere of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas