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The task of creating the film’s poster fell to British artist Ralph Steadman, whose jagged, hallucinatory illustrations had been integral to both Rolling Stone’s aesthetic and the Fear and Loathing books. (Unlike Thompson’s recreational—some would say Olympian—drug use, Steadman chose not to partake.) In the years since, the Thompson-Steadman partnership had become the stuff of legend, like a fire-breathing Butch and Sundance storming through the latter half of the American…
