Antoine Fuqua & Jake Gyllenhaal Reteam For True-Story Cartel Pic ‘The Man Who Made It Snow’

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EXCLUSIVE: Southpaw director Antoine Fuqua and star Jake Gyllenhaal are reuniting to work on The Man Who Made It Snow, 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.

Fuqua is producing the project, previously known as Let It Snow, through his Fuqua Films banner. The pic will be the first from Fuqua Films’ first-look development, production and financing deal with IM Global sealed in September. Gyllenhaal will also 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.

The screenplay by Brent Tabor is based on the now-deceased Mermelstein’s bestselling autobiography.

Fuqua most recently enjoyed success with Denzel Washington-starrer The Equalizer. The director is in postproduction on Southpaw, which stars Gyllenhaal as a boxer who fights his way to the top of his profession only to find his life falling apart around him. The Weinstein Company is handling domestic distribution on that film.

Gyllenhaal’s latest feature, the well-reviewed Nightcrawler, opened in a near-dead heat with Universal’s Ouija at the domestic box office this weekend.

http://deadline.com/2014/11/antoine...w-max-mermelstein-medellin-cartel-1201272518/
 
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Shugg Ross said:
Max is the snitch in cocaine cowboys so Im already not interested
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Max Mermelstein, the Snitch Who Brought Down the Cocaine Cowboys, Hid for Two Decades
By Gus Garcia-Roberts Thursday, Feb 25 2010

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/201...the-cocaine-cowboys-hid-for-two-decades/full/

Cocaine King Max Mermelstein's Long-Lost Daughter Found Out He Died Through New Times

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/01/max_mermelsteins_long-lost_dau.php

Last year, New Times published a feature detailing the strange last days of Max Mermelstein, the master cocaine smuggler who turned snitch in the mid-80s and died under government protection in 2008.


Cocaine king Max Mermelstein came out of hiding for a screenwriter

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-0...lstein-came-out-of-hiding-for-a-screenwriter/
 
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Scientific Playa said:
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Max Mermelstein, the Snitch Who Brought Down the Cocaine Cowboys, Hid for Two Decades
By Gus Garcia-Roberts Thursday, Feb 25 2010

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/201...the-cocaine-cowboys-hid-for-two-decades/full/

Cocaine King Max Mermelstein's Long-Lost Daughter Found Out He Died Through New Times

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/01/max_mermelsteins_long-lost_dau.php

Last year, New Times published a feature detailing the strange last days of Max Mermelstein, the master cocaine smuggler who turned snitch in the mid-80s and died under government protection in 2008.


Cocaine king Max Mermelstein came out of hiding for a screenwriter

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-0...lstein-came-out-of-hiding-for-a-screenwriter/
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Still would be interesting to see
 
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Jake Gyllenhaal Film Sued to Stop Production; Salaries Revealed

Randall Emmett and George Furla's Emmett/Furla Oasis Films is upset at being cut out of The Man Who Made It Snow, to star Jake Gyllenhaal. The production company has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the film's screenwriter that seeks an injunction against any distribution of the movie.

The Man Who Made It Snow comes from a script by Brett Tabor, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Max Mermelstein. Set to be directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer), the film tells the story of Mermelstein, an American who cracked the inner circle of the Colombian drug cartels in the 1980s and helped build Pablo Escobar's empire.
According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Emmett and Tabor have been in close contact for the last few years trying to make the film. The production was put on hold due to other competing films and TV programs in the marketplace.

"However, very recently, on September 30, 2014, Plaintiff and Defendant Tabor agreed that Plaintiff would produce and finance the Picture as evidenced by an option agreement contained in an email correspondence from Defendant Tabor to Mr. Emmett," states the lawsuit.

The email, attached to the complaint, conditions the film option on making a successful pay-or-play offer to Gyllenhaal for the lead role of Mermelstein. According to further court documents, Gyllenhaal was offered $6 million for the picture while Fuqua was to get a producer/director fee of $5 million. Emmett had planned to contribute $31 million to the picture's budget and had also agreed to let Tabor executive produce.

"However, unbeknownst to Plaintiff, Defendant Tabor, had, among other things, secretly and surreptitiously utilized Plaintiff's efforts and financing proposal/commitment, and proceeded to negotiate an agreement with IM Global for the financing and distribution of the Picture."
IM Global has launched the film at this week's American Film Market and has put out word that some presales with foreign distributors have been closed.

Emmett claims that Tabor and his associates have interfered with negotiations with Gyllenhaal's agent by claiming that Emmett has no rights to The Man Who Made It Snow. Tabor is said to have been warned not to execute any agreements that transfer rights, but Tabor's reps allegedly never responded.

The plaintiff is alleging breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and breach of implied-in-fact contract. Emmett/Furla demands a declaration that it has the exclusive right to produce and finance the picture, and wants Tabor and his associates enjoined from distributing, producing, financing, promoting, marketing or otherwise exploiting the film.

We've reached out to Tabor and IM Global for comment.
 
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