Today brings an early look at Johnny Depp in his second film based on a Hunter S. Thompson book, The Rum Diary.  Bruce Robinson (Withnail & I) is directing from his own script, which follows "a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean."  Amber Heard, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart, and Richard Jenkins also star.  Check out the stills after the jump.

Here's a synopsis for the film:

Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.

The pics come courtesy of Film Totaal: