• NEWS  • AWARDS  • IN THEATERS  • MOVIES  • TV SERIES  • BOX-OFFICE REPORT  • DVD & BLU-RAY •
• BLACK FRIDAY • REVIEWS  • SOUNDTRACKS  • MUSIC ALBUMS  • VIDEO GAMES  • WEEKLY SUMMARY •

Monday, October 13, 2014

Bryan Cranston to Star in THE INFILTRATOR

Bryan Cranston
"Breaking Bad" and "Godzilla" star Bryan Cranston is set to star in the thriller "The Infiltrator". The film will be directed by Brad Furman ("The Lincoln Lawyer") and it is based on author Robert Mazur's autobiography "The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel". Cranston will portray Mazur, a customs and excise agent who assumed the identity of Bob Musella during his undercover mission. The adaptation has been penned by Ellen Brown Furman. Filming is scheduled to begin January 2015 in London, Paris and Florida.

For more about the story, here is the book's synopsis:
"Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe. These men and women control multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking empires, running their organizations like public companies. Accountants, attorneys, and financial advisors, their roots run deep in their communities, and they are laundering billions of dollars a year, manipulating complex international finance systems to serve drug lords, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. In 1987, Mazur began infiltrating BCCI, bankers behind the Medellín cartel. He meticulously gathered evidence for years until, during a fake wedding, federal agents arrested over 40 high-ranking criminals, who were all found guilty and sent to prison. Never before told, this is the incredible, true story of how he did it."



     RELATED POSTS :