Harmony Jones
Peter Berg is back at Universal to direct a movie based on Sinaloa cartel leader El Chapo/Joaquín Guzmán Loera.
Deadline says Craig Borten is writing the project, developing it with “Friday Night Lights” and “Lone Survivor” helmer Berg.
Based on Patrick Keefe’s May New Yorker article The Hunt for El Chapo, it will tell of a man who “rose up through the ranks of the Mexican cartels in the 1970s and ’80s to head the powerful Sinaloa drug empire, making his riches on the tons of cocaine he moved from Colombia into the United States. He escaped from a maximum security prison with the help of a vast network of associates and influence; in 2011 he was ranked the #10 richest man in Mexico valued at $1 billion. Guzmán was finally arrested in a federal operation earlier this year that was celebrated on Twitter by Mexico’s President.”
Berg, currently developing a “Six Billion Dollar Man” movie with Mark Wahlberg set to star, will also produce via his Film 44 Banner.
