JLo to play Drug Lord Griselda Blanco in HBO Movie
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The star of NBC's Shades of Blue is set to topline and exec produce an untitled TV movie revolving around late drug lord Griselda Blanco, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The film, which is in development, focuses on the rise and fall of Blanco, the notorious drug lord known as "The Cocaine Godmother" who revolutionized the U.S. drug trade during the 1970s and 1980s and became the most powerful female cartel member of all time.
Blanco was killed in Colombia in September 2012. She was the subject of documentary feature Cocaine Cowboys and allegedly gunned down her first two husbands. She is said to have trafficked 300 kilos of cocaine per month during the height of her operation and became a multi-millionaire several times over during her 40s and is said to have ordered dozens of murders in order to keep her place at the top of Miami's gangster heap. She was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to almost two decades in a U.S. prison before being deported and, by reported accounts, going on to live a quiet life in Colombia's second-largest city, which has its own reputation as a favorite home-base for drug kingpins and cartels.
It is nice that she realized Shades of Blue wasnt going to help her get an Emmy nomination this early, I am gonna assume season 2 will be its last now.
It is nice that she realized Shades of Blue wasnt going to help her get an Emmy nomination this early, I am gonna assume season 2 will be its last now.
Weren't you also saying that Shades won't even be alive till season 2 and that will flop, even before the show started?
I guess you love being wrong.
Here, ladies and gentlemen, is what a BOSS looks like!
She's been chasing after this role for years now. There was another project about this woman called Cocaine Cowboys that she wanted, but she did not get the part or the project fell through. So instead of just moving on, she's using her production company to create a film about her that she can produce and star in.
so perhaps the deal is finalize