KILLING PABLO is finally moving ahead. The much delayed project about the life of the late Pablo Escobar will be helmed by SMOKIN’ ACES and NARC director Joe Carnahan with filming beginning in June, however the expected strike will probably see the project delayed by a month. Carnahan who will be working on WHITE JAZZ as a pre-strike movie, has wrote the script based on the book Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw.
Javier Bardem will play Escobar, the leader of a powerful Columbian drug cartel in the 70’s. After years of violent crimes which made him an astronomically rich man (he was the seventh richest man in the world according to Forbes Magazine in 1989), Escobar was targeted in 1992 by a coalition of Columbian Police and Military, the U.S. Drug Enforcement and the CIA, with the hunt on to bring him down.
Bale will play Major Steve Jacoby, the Delta Force Commander in charge of the hunt for Escobar.
In January, the film which was initially setup at Dreamworks and Paramount in conjunction with The Yari Film Group will have been in development for five full years without a single frame of footage shot. Variety say, Dreamworks and Paramount are no longer involved and it’s just Yari going solo.
This should be stellar stuff. Bale doesn’t pick bad roles and he is easily the most exciting director working these days and Carnahan’s energy and enthusiasm for film compliments his terrific talent. I love movies like this, where the hunt is on for a mob boss or drug boss.
Loved THE DEPARTED. I can’t wait for AMERICAN GANGSTER. Hell, even SMOKIN’ ACES did this kind of thing. These are my movies…. and with Bale, Bardem and Carnahan this should be amazing.
Another little side-note: What is Bale doing between now and June? He has no movie attached to his name? Is he taking the time off, or are Warner Brothers desperately offering him any deal under the sun to star in their JUSTICE LEAGUE movie.
Do you think he might have read the script?
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Another Bale film. This looks like it could be very good. Bale, as you said, doesn’t pick crappy parts. Which is why I don’t think we will see him Justice League.
Bale has said that he loves what’s going on with Nolan’s Batman and that he has no designs to play him in the JL. I’m good with that, unless Nolan directs it. Which he won’t. I would like to see David Boreanez step in the role with Tom Welling playing Superman.
Just my thoughts.
Wriker
the guy from angel and bones? are you serious? Too big, too dumb, too bad of an actor. On the other hand this movie is gonna be shit anyway let him do it. Please be stright to video so I dont have to see the damn thing. Although, if the preview looks good and this studio get it’s shit together it could still have a chance. They need to slow it down and go for a 2010 release with the right actors and writers!
Just realized this wasn’t even about JLA. Didn’t HBO’s Entourage do this movie. Medellin I believe. Does sound like a good flick. Cant wait.
As a big fan of Carnahan’s I think this movie’s going to kick ass, and then some1 Christian Bale wouldn’t have been on my list (I just don’t think that much of him) and sure Benecio Del Toro seems to be EVERYONE’S go-to-guy when it’s time to cast a bad Hispanic drug-dealer (he was the drug dealing bad guy in James’ Bond, the Living Daylights, I believe–one of those movies with Timothy Dalton) but Carnahan doesn’t make casting choices based on who’s on the cover of GQ this month. He usually has a good reason.
I trust his judgement. Can’t wait to see it.
No I’m 99.9% sure Bale won’t be in this movie, but I was just saying do you think he has read the script?
Jaysmack,
Its Javier Bardem in the movie not Del Toro.
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