Channing Tatum is Set to Star in and Produce a Drug Cartel Film Called BLOODLINES
Channing Tatum is set to star in and produce a new film project set up at Universal Pictures called Bloodlines. The film is based on a book by Melissa Del Bosque called Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty.
The story follows "two FBI agents — one of them a rookie — as they work to take down members of a drug cartel wrapped up with quarter horse racing in Texas."
Tatum will most likely play one of the these FBI agent characters. I'm a big fan of the actor and this seems like it will be a great new project for him to be a part of.
There's no director attached to the movie yet, but the script will be written by Jonathan Herman, who received an Academy Award nomination for Straight Outta Compton.
Here's the full detailed description of the story from the book:
Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he’s deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Treviño, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Treviño was laundering money through American quarter horse racing. If this was true, it offered a rookie like Lawson the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the cartel. Lawson teams up with a more experienced agent, Alma Perez, and, taking on impossible odds, sets out to take down one of the world’s most fearsome drug lords.
In Bloodlines, Emmy and National Magazine Award-winning journalist Melissa del Bosque follows Lawson and Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle a cartel leader’s American racing dynasty built on extortion and blood money.
With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, del Bosque turns more than three years of research and her decades of reporting on Mexico and the border into a gripping narrative about greed and corruption. Bloodlines offers us an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Zetas and US federal agencies, and opens a new vista onto the changing nature of the drug war and its global expansion.
Source: Variety