{"id":4098,"date":"2008-12-21T01:19:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2008-12-26T23:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T22:56:36","slug":"interview-alex-gibney-on-gonzo-the-life-and-work-of-dr-hunter-s-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/12\/21\/interview-alex-gibney-on-gonzo-the-life-and-work-of-dr-hunter-s-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Alex Gibney on Gonzo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gonzo<\/a><\/p>\n

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson<\/a><\/strong> is a new documentary\u00a0directed by\u00a0Alex Gibney<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It explores\u00a0Hunter S. Thompson<\/a>‘s life and times as well as his landmark writings on music and politics with contributions from the likes of\u00a0Tom Wolfe<\/a>,\u00a0Ralph Steadman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jann Wenner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is narrated by\u00a0Johnny Depp<\/a>,\u00a0who played Hunter in the 1998 film version of Fear and Loathing and Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I spoke with Alex about the film when it screened at the London Film Festival<\/a> back in October and you can listen to it here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Alex_Gibney_on_Gonzo.mp3]\n

Download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out the trailer for the film here:<\/p>\n

<\/object>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is out at selected UK cinemas now<\/em><\/p>\n

>\u00a0Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
\n>\u00a0Get showtimes for the film via Google Movies<\/a>\u00a0
\n> Gonzo<\/a>\u00a0and Alex Gibney<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> Check out our review of Alex Gibney’s last film Taxi to the Darkside<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a new documentary\u00a0directed by\u00a0Alex Gibney. It explores\u00a0Hunter S. Thompson‘s life and times as well as his landmark writings on music and politics with contributions from the likes of\u00a0Tom Wolfe,\u00a0Ralph Steadman\u00a0and\u00a0Jann Wenner. It is narrated by\u00a0Johnny Depp,\u00a0who played Hunter in the 1998 film version of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[301,338,339,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}