Nordling here.
Unfortunate title aside, this is actually a hell of a story. If you've seen the films COCAINE COWBOYS and COCAINE COWBOYS 2, you've heard about Griselda Blanco, possibly one of the most evil, ruthless drug dealers who has ever lived. In the 1970s and 1980s she may have been one of the most powerful as well; it's said that she ordered over 200 assassinations of rivals over the years, and what's even scarier is that apparently she's still on the loose somewhere. She was deported to Columbia, where she lives freely - Wikipedia says that someone got a photo of her at Bogota Airport in 2007, and that's the last anyone has seen of her publicly.
Now, according to Deadline, Branko Lustig (one of the producers of SCHINDLER'S LIST) and Daniela Cretu have started a production company, First Born Films, and will make Blanco's story into a feature film. The script will be written by Frank Baldwin, with no word of casting or director yet, but this story is too good to not be told. As far as directors go, this seems like something Ridley Scott could sink his teeth into, but he's got a lot of potential projects on his plate. And I'd bet actresses would line up for a part as juicy as this. Hope we see this one sooner rather than later.
