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MEXICAN DRUG LORD Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman sought to make a biopic while he was on the run, going as far as contacting producers, authorities said following his arrest.
Guzman was recaptured in his home state of Sinaloa, six months after his Hollywood-like escape from a maximum-security prison near Mexico City.
The manhunt led authorities back to Sinaloa and neighbouring states, where Guzman is revered as a sort of Robin Hood figure despite his Sinaloa drug cartel’s notorious violence.
Attorney General Arely Gomez said an “important aspect that allowed us to locate him was that we discovered Guzman’s intention to make a biographical film, for which he established contact with actresses and producers.”
“The follow-up work allowed us to document meetings between attorneys of the now-detainee and these people,” she said.
Gomez did not provide more details, but she said the matter was part of a new line of investigation into Guzman’s escape.
His 11 July prison break, in which he fled through an elaborate tunnel, has already inspired a Mexican production house, Dragon Films, which made a movie titled “El Chapo: The Escape of the Century.”
Mexican media said this week that the film will premiere on 15 January.
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El Chapo……..
Very soft and friendly name for a notorious criminal. Something almost Irish it……
An Lado.!
@David McShite
I was thinking along those lines. Then I learned that his nickname means “shorty”.
Senor Spielbergo had signed on to direct.
Tom Seleck as Guzman
Haha,I was just thinking it. He’s the bulb off him.
Narcos series 3.
There’d be a 9 year tribunal if that was the ERU in Ireland
Old El Taco .. lol
Was he not already in Dispicable me?
So “El Chapo” is going to premiere on 15th January 15 , I’m really looking forward to that.. Oh wait!
Film 4 show The Legend Of Shorty now and again, well worth watching.
But why send him back to the same prison he escaped from. Doesn’t make sense.
To make the sequels.
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