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Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz Starring
in Pablo Escobar Movie
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Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp announced Wednesday at the opening day of
Cannes that it will finance, distribute and co-produce with Pinguin
Films and Dean Nichols Productions.
The film will be based on Virginia Vallejo’s 2008 bestselling
Spanish-language memoir “Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar.” Spanish
director Fernando León de Aranoa (“A Perfect Day”) will direct from
his own script.
Producers for the film are Dean Nichols, Javier Bardem and
EuropaCorp CEO Christophe Lambert. Executive producers are Jere
Hausfater, Dany Boon and Todd Nichols. International sales for the
film will be launching in Cannes.
Bardem and Cruz teamed previously on “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” for
which Cruz won a best supporting actress Oscar. Bardem worked with
León de Aranoa on “Mondays in the Sun.”
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“A Perfect Day,” the
Spanish director’s first English-language film, will premiere as
part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors Fortnight.
“Escobar” will follows the rise of Pablo Escobar, the ruthless
Colombian drug king who died in a shootout in 1993 after his reign
had helped plunged his country into chaos.
Vallejo’s memoir describes her romantic relationship with Escobar
along with origins of the rebel organizations in Colombia, reasons
for the growth of the cocaine industry, the horrors of
narcoterrorism during 1988-93 and the links of the Medellin and Cali
cartels with Caribbean dictators and Colombian presidents. She
testified in 2008 in the reopened case of the 1985 Palace of Justice
siege in which more than 100 people died and was granted asylum in
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