10 Bill Murray Movies You Should Throw Out The Window

7. Where The Buffalo Roam

While associated with making the world laugh, Murray is a man of serious ambitions and one of his big gambles as an actor was to attempt the unfilmable. Where The Buffalo Roam became the first major roll of the dice with regards putting the drug-fuelled writings of Hunter S Thompson onscreen. A mish-mash of material compiled by John Kaye and presided over by Art Linson, it starred our subject as the notorious Thompson. Rather than describe the story, it's probably best to say the movie flopped and the cast and crew went through what can politely be called artistic differences between all concerned. Interestingly Murray and Thompson himself formed a friendship, though the author poured scorn on the end result in 1980. Murray adopted the gonzo-oriented persona of the writer, reportedly returning to the set of Saturday Night Live still in character. It took Johnny Depp and director Terry Gilliam to do some kind of justice to the journalist's life eighteen years later, and even then they only caught a fraction of that lightning in a bottle.