Jul 20 2008
Cheadle New Project
Jose Padilha is set to write and direct a movie based on “Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine and South America’s Strangest Jail,” a memoir Thomas McFadden wrote with Rusty Young.
Marching Powder, the working title of the film, is a drama that Don Cheadle has long wanted to star in and produce.
Cheadle intends to play McFadden, a British drug trafficker. He 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.
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