Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal Reunite For ‘The Man Who Made It Snow’Posted by Wilson Morales
November 3, 2014
Source: Deadline
Having worked together on the upcoming boxing film, Southpaw, director Antoine Fuqua and Jake Gyllenhaal will be reunite in ‘The Man Who Made It Snow,’ reports Deadline.
The story is based on the true story of Max Mermelstein, a Jewish hotel engineer who transformed Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise. The screenplay by Brent Tabor is based on the now-deceased Mermelstein’s best-selling autobiography.
According to the site, Fuqua is producing the project, previously known as Let It Snow, through his Fuqua Films banner. The film will be the first from Fuqua Films’ first-look development, production and financing deal with IM Global sealed in September. Gyllenhaal also will serve as a producer alongside Fuqua, Tabor and IM Global’s Matt Jackson. IM Global CEO Stuart Ford will exec produce.
IM Global will fully finance and serve as co-producers on the picture, which shoots late next year. It also is handling international sales at AFM beginning this week.
Fuqua recently directed the box office hit The Equalizer, which stars Denzel Washington, while Gyllenhaal is currently in theaters in the critically acclaimed film, The Nightcrawler.
The Weinstein Co. will distribute Southpaw, but no release date has been set.
Interesting enough, Fuqua has been wanted to make a film on Pablo Escobar for the long, but with Benicio Del Toro making the festival rounds playing Escobar in Escobar: Paradise Lost, Fuqua may have been to tell another side of his life.
