Complex sentence: The novel first appeared as a two-part series in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971, was printed as a book in 1972, and was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1998 starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.
Split into simpler sentences: The novel first appeared as a two-part series in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971. It was later adapted into the 1998 film of the same name starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.