Hunter Goes to Hollywood, archive footage of the author filming his cameo in the film.Thompson on Film, a 2006 documentary on the author featuring Depp, del Toro, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, Bill Murray, Sean Penn, John Cusack and others Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride: Hunter S.
Ignore This Terrible Drug: The Art and Style of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a featurette including interviews with cinematographer Nicola Pecorini, production designer Alex McDowall, costume designer Julie Weiss and editor Lesley Walker.Grim Memories & Bad Flashbacks, an interview with star Benicio del Toro.The Gonzo Papers, an interview with producer Laila Nabulsi.Savage: Finding The American Nightmare, an appreciation by film historian Ian Christie.Audio commentary by Terry Gilliam, moderated by Phil Stubbs.Optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) presentation.4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original negative supervised by Terry Gilliam.
Beset by bats, horny lizards and runaway hotel carpet upon their arrival, the pair plunge deeper into the pharmaceutically enhanced neon underbelly of the City of Sin on a chemically charged savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.įlashback to Gilliam and Thompson’s trip of a lifetime with this 4K restoration, accompanied by an outstanding selection of bonus material delving into the history of the film and the original book.
Gonzo (del Toro) are en route to Las Vegas, ostensibly on a banal journalistic assignment, but the suitcase full of psychoactive narcotics in their possession tells another story. Raoul Duke (Depp) and his volatile Samoan attorney Dr. Thompson’s literary landmark of psychedelic excess finally met its cinematic match in anarchic visionary director Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys) and two no-holds-barred star performances by Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Considered unfilmable for decades, Hunter S.