EXCLUSIVE: Halo and Categorised filmmaker Roel Reiné is ready to direct American Smuggler, the upcoming action-drama starring 24, Main League and Far From Heaven actor Dennis Haysbert.
The movie will chart the relentless hunt for Craig Petties, an American drug trafficker finest recognized for the felony empire he led in Memphis whereas working in collaboration with Mexico’s notorious drug cartels. Haysbert will play a distinguished CIA agent within the movie. Filming is because of get underway this summer time in New Mexico.
The mission will hone in on the efforts of SEAL Group Six, Delta Drive and the Mexican Marines, who painstakingly dismantled a global drug community that plagued communities throughout North America for many years. The story additionally brings to mild the lesser-known tragedy of youngsters compelled to labor in El Chapo’s notorious tunnels, usually dropping their lives in collapses. Petties was sentenced to life in jail in 2013 at age 36 for his trafficking profession and connection to a number of homicides.
The movie is being written by Koji Steven Sakai (Skeletons within the Closet), Sam Wildhorse Bass of EuroAmerica Movies and Tracy Matthews of Lion of Judah Productions. The screenplay shall be based mostly on Matthews’ expertise as a civilian crew chief through the operation.
Producers are David M. Matthews of Stone Gate Leisure; Cheryl Martin and Troy Allen of CMA Leisure; Jarnell Stokes, Isaiah Stokes, and Aisha Wynn of Stoked Bros Media; and Lion of Judah Productions.
Haysbert shares govt producer credit with Geevani Singh and retired member of SEAL Group Six Don Mann. Former skilled soccer participant and Navy SEAL Damian Jackson will seek the advice of.
Haysbert is finest recognized for portraying President David Palmer in hit collection 24, for which he was Golden Globe nominated, baseball participant Pedro Cerrano within the Main League movie trilogy, and for his position in Todd Haynes’ acclaimed drama Far From Heaven.
Reiné started his directing profession within the Netherlands, the place he gained the Dutch Academy Award for Finest Director along with his first theatrical characteristic, The Supply. His credit embrace historic options Admiral and Redbad and TV collection Halo, Marvel-Inhumans, and Wu Assassins. Most lately, Reiné directed the characteristic Categorised starring Aaron Eckhart and Tim Roth.
