Escobar's infamy has proven inspirational for a number of creative types. From the article: Escobar's rise as a leader of the drug cartel in Medellin, Colombia, began in the 1970s. After years of terrorizing police and political leaders, Escobar was targeted in 1992 by a coalition of Colombian police and military, the U.
S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the CIA; he was killed the following year. The article says the film could begin shooting next June -- if the writers', actors', and directors' guilds don't strike -- and whenever it comes out, it'll apparently have to contend with another Escobar biopic.
The other film, titled simply Escobar , is listed at the IMDB as being directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak from a script by Greg Mellott and Richard Rionda del Castro . The script, incidentally, has been read by Carnahan. He didn't care for it.
Wow. If you're gonna make a movie about Pablo you gotta do better then some hackneyed, hagiographic ' Scarface ' knockoff. It would've been great if the script had been solid.
Stern competition is good for the soul...
but this one is so lacking in the very basic tenets of dramatic storytelling that it comes off as this amateurish, cardboard account of what was the single greatest criminal legacy of the last century. And they better hope Pablo is actually dead. He gets wind of this script and it'll create marked men overnight and have fresh bullets flying anew.
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