Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment has acquired the film rights to Jesse Katz' Los Angeles magazine article "Escape From Cuba". Ratner and Beau Flynn will produce, and a search for writers is underway.
The story chronicles Dodgers superstar Yasiel Puig's repeated attempts to escape his home country of Cuba - attempts which saw him held captive by drug smugglers for almost three weeks.
In news of a different kind, Tri-Star Pictures has pre-emptively acquired the comedy pitch "The Yank" which Steve Pink and Jeff Morris will write and which has Will Ferrell attached to star.
Ferrell would play a timid insurance courier who gets caught up in a plot to steal the Crown Jewels in London. No director is attached at this time.
Source: THR...
The story chronicles Dodgers superstar Yasiel Puig's repeated attempts to escape his home country of Cuba - attempts which saw him held captive by drug smugglers for almost three weeks.
In news of a different kind, Tri-Star Pictures has pre-emptively acquired the comedy pitch "The Yank" which Steve Pink and Jeff Morris will write and which has Will Ferrell attached to star.
Ferrell would play a timid insurance courier who gets caught up in a plot to steal the Crown Jewels in London. No director is attached at this time.
Source: THR...
- 4/29/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Los Angeles Dodgers star Yasiel Puig is the latest modern athlete to have his life story developed as a major motion picture following Kurt Warner, Jesse Holley and Josh Hamilton, TheWrap has learned. Brett Ratner and James Packer's RatPac Entertainment has acquired rights to “Escape From Cuba: Yasiel Puig's Untold Journey to the Dodgers,” an article by Jesse Katz that ran in Los Angeles Magazine earlier this month. Also read: The Best. Baseball Movie. Ever (Guest Blog) Puig's journey to the big leagues is certainly fascinating. He escaped Cuba with the help of a Mexican drug cartel that picked him up in a.
- 4/25/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
In a heated competition, Brett Ratner and his RatPac Entertainment have acquired the rights to Jesse Katz’ article Escape From Cuba: Yasiel Puig's Untold Journey to the Dodgers. Ratner will produce the big-screen take with Beau Flynn via his FlynnPictureCo. banner. Photos: THR's Sports Issue: Exclusive Portraits of the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig, Olympian Lindsey Vonn The article, which appeared earlier this month in Los Angeles magazine, chronicles Dodgers superstar Puig's repeated attempts to escape his home country of Cuba. He finally succeeded when a wealthy but shady sponsor arranged for smugglers working for one of Mexico’s murderous drug cartels to pick
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- 4/25/2014
- by Borys Kit, Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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