nope the escobar movie is called killing pablo escobar and is set to come out summer or winter 09(even though i dont believe they have started filming yet)
A sleeper of a bad-ass, Edgar Ramirez , is in the news today with word coming (via Chud) that director Smokin' Joe Carnahan is eying the Venezuelan actor to play the notorious drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, in Carnahan's 2009 biopic, Killing Pablo. There's only one problem with this. Ramirez is reportedly slated to play the same character in Antoine Fuqua's competing film, Escobar, for which Oliver Stone is executive producing. What gives? Word came down a few weeks ago that despite rumoring to the contrary, Javier Bardem would not headline Carnahan's film, so it's been know that the director was looking for another lead. We've also known that Carnahan has zero love for Fuqua and Stone's parallel production. So has Carnahan spirited Ramirez away from the competing film and on to his own? Chud received a message directly from Carnahan talking about Ramirez's potential involvement. "I spent the last
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