News > Clive Owen is attached to 'Cartagena'

Clive Owen is set for Cartagena, a story about an undercover agent amid Colombian drug cartels.  According to The Hollywood Reporter Michael Ross, Turistas, well write the script and Mark Cuban under 2929 Production will be producing with Nick Wechsler.

"Cartagena" centers on an undercover agent who gets caught in a complex plot and must elude drug dealers and international agents if he hopes to survive. The project is named for a city on Colombia's northern coast that has a colorful history featuring wars, robust economic activity and tourist development.

Colombia, a hotbed of political intrigue and violent drug wars, has become fertile cinematic ground. Warner Bros. and Sony this year acquired projects about the rescue of 15 hostages from the rebel FARC group, a controversial Marxist organization that U.S. authorities have said has ties to drug cartels.

When I first saw the headline I was hoping for a second and just a second that it was going to be like the Entourage's Medellin, that would have been tragic.