FX Networks has announced that it has snapped up the rights to Don Winslow’s acclaimed Cartel Trilogy which it is developing as a TV series with Shane Salerno (Armageddon) scripting. The three books – The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border – follow a DEA agent, Art Keller, on a harrowing 45-year journey through […]
Ridley Scott set to direct The Cartel, Leonardo DiCaprio linked to lead
20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott (Exodus: Gods and Kings) are set to continue their long association with an adaptation of acclaimed novel The Cartel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The novel, written by Don Winslow, offers “a fictional take on the notorious Sinaloa drug boss whose daring July 18 escape from a Mexican […]
The Cartel screenwriter discusses the upcoming Ridley Scott adaptation
Although he still harbours ambitions of another outing in the Alien franchise, it seems that director Ridley Scott is set to follow up All the Money in the World with The Cartel, an adaptation of Don Winslow’s novel. Scott first attached himself to the project – which revolves around the Mexican drug cartels, and includes a fictionalised […]
