Good news for fans of the late Hunter S. Thompson: Motion Picture Corporation of America has acquired rights to "Prisoner of Denver," a Vanity Fair article Thompson co-wrote with contributing editor Mark Seal for the June 2004 issue of Vanity Fair and one of Thompson's last works, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
While working on the piece, which examined injustice and abuse of Colorado's legal system, Seal "found himself on the road in what he could only describe as a 'Hunter Thompson world,' dealing with skinheads, speed freaks and angry cops," Hollywood Reporter wrote.
"My first day I was in a female correctional institution, saying a line I had been waiting my entire life to say: 'Hunter Thompson sent me,' " Seal said. "He made being a reporter glamorous and exciting in the 1970s. It was one of the best experiences in my whole journalistic career, and it was one of the best causes of his life."