Joe Carnahan Gets the OK from Pablo Escobar's Son for 'Killing Pablo'
In the ongoing battle of Pablo Escobar biopics, I think Smokin' Joe Carnahan finally has managed to one-up Oliver Stone in the war between the two (possibly three) Pablo Escobar films currently in development. Carnahan recently updated his personal blog with news that he had received a letter from Juan Pablo Escobar, the only son of the infamous drug baron. It would appear that Carnahan has managed to impress the family member, since according to Joe, "He offered me unlimited access to his family's history, including photos, films, letters and the like". Carnahan's film is based on the book by Mark Bowden, and focuses on the "cocaine cartel dismantled by US Special Forces and intelligence, the Colombian military, and a vigilante gang controlled by the Cali cartel".The whole thing started back in October when news of Stone's film first began to hit, and that they were aiming for a pre-strike production date (which as we all know never materialized, but it probably did nothing to help the bad blood between the productions).Considering that Carnahan wasn't exactly happy with having to compete with Oliver Stone and Antoine Fuqua's Escobar, getting the seal of approval from Escobar's only heir could be what Carnahan needs to trump Stone's project; which is based on the book written by Pablo's brother, called Mi Hermano Pablo. Carnahan has been struggling for years to get his Escobar flick into production so you can see where he is coming from when he shouted "no fair" when multiple projects were being rushed into production. Carnahan has already scored Javier Bardem (though Bardem may bow out because of scheduling conflicts) and Christian Bale for his film which automatically gives it another advantage over the yet-to-be-cast Escobar. Killing Pablo is set for release in 2009 ... if Joe ever gets around to filming it.
[via Filmstalker]
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12-07-2007 @ 6:17PM
Sam said...
i think entourages pablo film was the best.
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1-13-2008 @ 8:28PM
Jason said...
Did Pope St. Pius X snort cocaine in the bathroom for exta energy to pray more (I read he learned this from Pope Leo XIII who endorsed Vin Mariani with a Gold Medal when Joseph Sarto was a Cardinal)? In fact, I also was told this by a SSPX Catholic priest named Fr. Scott, but now I am reading that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos of Medellin, Colombia worked together on BIG COCAINE DEALS? I think that is why the SSPX has a lot of money and a lot of properties (Econe, Switzerland)? I heard that President Uribe's AUC helped them deliver the goods in a big Black Ship? Can anyone confirm that?
Did the FARC-EP benefit too? Or were they cut out of the deal? Do they really say the Latin Tridentine Mass by their Farc chaplains? I heard that the Chinese Communist Patriotic Church celebrates that old Latin Mass, and they help the FARC and ELN in their missions to Colombia? Not sure if they a Valid Latin Bishop for them? Br. Michael Dimond asked me this matter a long way back, I think he desires to rise to the honor of bishop, makes sense!
Also, it is widely known that there seems to be evidence of this from what I hear from a Bishop-Scholar Michael Carter that a Bishop in Miami, the Most Reverend Timothy Henneberry, OSA (Prior of La Iglesia Catolica Tradicional Nuestra Senora de los Dolores), helps the FARC/ELN Groups deliver the goods to (Cuban) churches he works with (also in the network are Bishop Martin, Bishop Fulham, Fr. Morrison, Fr. Bolduc, Fr. Brown, Fr. Collins, Fr. Cekada, etc)? Is this really true? I am not sure, but I am very suspicious from what I read, and I was told a lot about this from an Argentine Nun Sister Marie of the Trinity, anyone know about her resume? Hermana Mary de Trinidad said that she is the successor of La Popessa, and claims to know more than Dr. Bishop Malachi Martin as far as the Inside Scoop!
Wow - this story - now that would be a When Celebrity Endorsements Go Bad!!!
There is also a new book on the Cartels of "Communicatio in Sacris" from a Colombian-Venezuelan Scholar Dr. W. Detucci (I think from La Javierana in Bogota?)... here you can read more:
http://www.vladcatholic.com
I would appreciate anyone to share more information on this controversy. Maybe a book review on "Communicatio in Sacris," by Dr. Detucci.
As a Independent Roman Catholic Traditional Bishop, I try to stay out of the Narco-Politics of the Traditionalist Movement, I am simply asking all the same questions lingering in the air. Something is going on--that's for sure! Maybe my Liberal friends, Directors Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, will work with President Hugo Chavez to uncover the truth? But I also heard Traditionalist Director Mel Gibson is fighting them over Copyright Issues of a Documentary he is also working on concerning Traditionalism in Latin America...I heard though he is only working with President Alvaro Uribe (and that hurt Chavez's feelings).
We'll see, now won't we?
Blessings,
+Jason Spadafore
A Modern-Day Montague Summers
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