Decadent and Depraved: How the Joe Iconis Family Created The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical

Decadent and Depraved: How the Joe Iconis Family Created The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical

When Hunter S. Thompson died at 67 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2005, his last wish was for his ashes to be shot out of a 150-foot cannon. Johnny Depp, who starred in the film adaptation of Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, paid $3 million to make it happen. “I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out,” Depp said at the funeral.  Thompson exited this world the same way he inhabited it: loudly, controversially, a…