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Cannes: Oscar Isaac To Star As Pablo Escobar In Relativity Pic Helmed By Brad Furman

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 4:44pm PDTTags: Brad Furman, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Escobar, Relativity Media
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Furman will finally get behind the camera on a feature film about Colombian drug cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar. The Lincoln Lawyer director has long sought a way into a biopic of Escobar and now has Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac aboard for the lead role, which is based on the Black List script by Matt Aldrich. Isaac will be in a lot of conversations before and after that Coen brothers pic comes out December 6. Relativity Media is the distributor and will sell the project in Cannes. Raging Bull Entertainment’s Joseph Khouri and Joe Isgro will produce with Scott Pictures’ Scott Steindorff, Film 360′s Scott Lambert, Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh and Tucker Tooley. Scott Lastaiti and Dylan Russell are exec producing. Filming begins in September in Colombia. Steindorff is producing and funding Jane Got Gun, the pic that finally came together with a final piece of casting in Ewan McGregor, who stars with Natalie Portman, Noah Emmerich and Joel Edgerton. The pic is near the end of production under helmer Gavin O’Connor.

Isaac is repped by UTA and Inspire Entertainment, Furman by CAA and Aldrich by CAA and Jewerl Ross.

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Brady Corbet Lands Key Role In ‘Paradise Lost’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 25, 2013 @ 11:47am PDTTags: Brady Corbet, Pablo Escobar, Paradise Lost
Mike Fleming

Brady CorbetEXCLUSIVE: Brady Corbet, who stars in the upcoming IFC release Simon Killer, has signed on to star with Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson in Paradise Lost. The drama is about notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar … Read More »

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Relativity Media Takes On Pablo Escobar Story

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 12:22pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Enrique Urbizu, Pablo Escobar, Relativity Media, Silver Or Lead
Mike Fleming

Pablo EscobarBREAKING: Relativity Media acquired Silver Or Lead, a script that tells the story behind the manhunt for cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. Relativity will produce the film with Atmosphere Entertainment MM. Enrique Urbizu, whose gritty crime thriller … Read More »

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Netflix Eyes Pablo Escobar Series From Gaumont International TV & José Padilha

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 10:28am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Gaumont International Television, Jose Padilha, Netflix, Pablo Escobar
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont International Television and Netflix may soon be re-teaming for a drama series about notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. GIT is producing one of Netflix’s first original series, Eli Roth’s monster thriller Hemlock Grove, which premieres April 19. Now the U.S.-based production arm of European feature studio Gaumont has teamed with another feature director, Brazilian-born Jose Padilha, for Narcos. The series will chronicle the life and death of Escobar, the ruthless boss of the Medellin Cartel and a known terrorist who was also a congressman, a family man and revered by the poor as a new Robin Hood. Padilha, on whose idea the project is based, is slated to oversee and direct the 13-episode first season, which is eying a 2014 debut on Netflix. Doug Miro & Carlo Bernard (Sorcerer’s Apprentice) are writing. Eric Newman (Children Of Men) will executive produce. Read More »

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