Joe Carnahan has been blogging like a madman lately and his latest seems to say that with the recent departure of George Clooney White Jazz is going to be placed on the back burner and Killing Pablo will be thrust into the spotlight. The cool thing for Carnahan fans is that while White Jazz sounded like it was going to be fantastic thanks to what was being referred to as a great script and with Clooney in the lead, Pablo sounds just as enticing since it stars Christian Bale and Javier Bardem. However, it now looks like Bardem might not be available to play Pablo, but Carnahan may have a substitute there.
Here is Carnahan’s update as posted on his blog:
There’s an argument right now from my reps that maybe the time to jump onto Pablo is right now. White Jazz is something, that as much as it kills me to say this, can wait. What can’t is PABLO since another version of that story (albeit inferior) is being prepped right now. The only downside would be Bardem, who just commited to a film and therefore wouldn’t be available for KP. There is, however another suggestion that’s just as thrilling and somebody who had already expressed an earlier interest in this script. If he were to agree to play Pablo, I might have to pull up stakes and go make that film, toot sweet. I don’t want to get beat to the punch on something that I put that much time and effort into. I didn’t slave over the NARC script like I did over KILLING PABLO.
It’s a high class problem I’ve got but it’s still a f*cking problem.
Any advice you guys might have would be most appreciated.
Killing Pablo is a biopic on drug cartel leader Pablo Escobar (Bardem) and Major Steve Jacoby (Bale), the Delta Force commander who led the hunt for the man.
The inferior film Carnahan refers to in his post is the untitled feature with Antoine Fuqua set to helm based on “Mi Hermano Pablo,” a book written by Roberto Escobar Gaviria, who served as his brother’s accountant and confidant and whose company, STL Holdings, committed the life and literary rights of the Escobar family. David McKenna is rewriting the current script under the supervision of producer Oliver Stone and Fuqua.
It is hard to tell what exactly will happen, but I am sure we will know soon enough.
