José Padilha will write and direct the true life Colombian prison drama "Marching Powder" says Variety.
Don Cheadle will produce the film and will probably star as Thomas McFadden a British drug trafficker who was arrested in Bolivia and jailed in La Paz's San Pedro prison.
During his six-year stretch, McFadden served as a tour guide in a prison that thrived under a capitalist system made possible by bribery of officials.
The project is based on Rusty Young's book of the same name.
Cheadle's had plenty of practice talking like a Brit-Thanks to the Ocean's heist flicks....
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