Director Bruce Robinson has been assembling a pretty notable cast for his movie The Rum Diary, an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel-- Johnny Depp, Aaron Echart, Richard Jenkins and Giovanni Ribisi have all already signed on. But now a newer face will be given a chance to play along. Michael Rispoli, known for a short role on The Sopranos, has signed on to join the cast.

There aren't any other details in the Variety piece, but oddly enough, Awards Daily printed a plot description on March 21 that credited Rispoli as playing the character Bob Sala, the newfound friend of the main character, alcoholic novelist Paul Kemp.