Hot Project Du Jour: TJ English Cocaine Smuggler Saga ‘The Last Kilo’
One to hit the market that is creating the sniff of an auction for film and TV rights: . Book proposal is about to hit the market through Verve, and it is written bysold to Paramount in a 7-figure deal with Benicio Del Toro attached to star and Appian Way producing.and a crew known as Los Muchachos, became the biggest cocaine smugglers in American history, smuggling over $20 Billion in a two-decade run.
Per the book, Falcon was at the eye of the storm, from his early efforts to overthrow and kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro – when Willie got his start in smuggling cocaine to help the CIA raise money to acquire weapons during the Iran-Contra Affair – to becoming a coke kingpin whose innovations in importation and distribution changed that scurrilous game.Falcon and his partners were the first U.S.
These two young Cuban exiles – high school dropouts – were among the first to launder their massive profits through banks in Panama, using as their private banker President Manuel Noriega’s lawyer – until Noriega was deposed by the U.S. government and their private money-launderer succeeded Noriega as president.
Falcon and Los Muchachos are also the subject of Billy Corben’s forthcoming documentary series Cocaine Cowboys: Kings of Miami which is set to air August 4th on Netflix. Falcon and other Los Muchachos sources did not participate in that project. The book is currently in the proposal phase and will be shopped for screen shortly as a family saga in the vein of The Sopranos set in the era of Miami Vice.
The rights to the book are held by Exilium’s Jose Daniel Freixas and Tony Gonzalez, who were behind the 2016 auction forSubscribe to
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