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Here's our first look at Benico del Toro as Pablo Escobar in a new drama called Paradise Lost. The movie is based on a true story that centers on Nick (Josh Hutcherson), a young Irish surfer who visits his brother in Colombia and falls in love with a beautiful local girl named Maria. Pablo Escobar just happens to be her uncle.
Life of Pi screenwriter Andrea di Stefano wrote the script for the film and is also directing it. This won't be a Pablo Escobar biopic, but it was described as having "a narrative structure in the vein of The Last King of Scotland, weaving Nick and Maria's romance with Nick's ambivalent and destructive relationship with Escobar." Here's the synopsis:
Young surfer Nick thinks all his dreams have come true when he goes to visit his brother in Colombia. Against an idyllic backdrop of blue lagoons and white beaches he falls madly in love with a beautiful Colombian girl called Maria. It all seems perfect until he meets her uncle, one Pablo Escobar.
We also have a video from the set for you to check out if you want, thanks to Bleeding Cool.
