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Friday, July 18, 2008

Prison Time

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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