  Benicio del Toro to portray drug lord Pablo Escobar in “Paradise Lost” November 15, 2012 - 20:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Benicio del Toro is in negotiations to portray Pablo Escobar in an upcoming drama. The Che actor is said to be in final talks to play the Colombian drug lord in romance thriller Paradise Lost, Digital Spy reported citing Variety. Paradise Lost follows young surfer Nick, who visits his brother in California and falls in love with a local girl called Maria. However, their romance takes a surprise turn when Nick meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar. The film is written by Life of Pi's Andrea di Stefano, who will also make his directorial debut. Dimitri Rassam's Chapter 2 company has joined with Jerome Seydoux's Pathe and Frederique Dumas's Studio 37 to co-produce the project. "For Chapter 2, Pathe and Studio 37, having Benicio Del Toro on board to play Pablo Escobar was an incredible motivation," said Rassam. "He's one of the rare actors with enough charisma and range to play such a multi-faceted character as Escobar, who could be wonderfully charming yet dangerous and menacing." Rassam added that the film will not be a biopic of Pablo Escobar and "will have a narrative structure in the vein of The Last King of Scotland, weaving Nick and Maria's romance with Nick's ambivalent and destructive relationship with Escobar". Filming will begin in Panama in March 2013. Del Toro has also signed up for the romantic film How the Light Gets In. For more breaking entertainment and tech coverage follow Digital Spy on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Erdogan wants “realistic road map” for relations with Armenia  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a “new realistic road map” for relations with Armenia.Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements.Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of ArmeniaHenrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan. |
