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Channing Tatum Attached To Star In Adaptation Of 'Bloodlines' By Melissa Del Bosque

Published Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:29:06 -0500

Universal Pictures has optioned the Melissa Del Bosque book Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, The FBI and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty — which may be one of the longest book titles ever. Deadline is reporting that Channing Tatum is attached to star and writer Jonathan Herman (Straight Outta Compton) will write the screenplay.

According to Amazon, the synopsis for the book reads:

"The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño.

Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Treviño, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Treviño was laundering money through American quarter horse racing. If this was true, it offered a rookie like Lawson the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the cartel. Lawson teams up with a more experienced agent, Alma Perez, and, taking on impossible odds, sets out to take down one of the world's most fearsome drug lords.

In Bloodlines, Emmy and National Magazine Award-winning journalist Melissa del Bosque follows Lawson and Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle a cartel leader's American racing dynasty built on extortion and blood money.

With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, del Bosque turns more than three years of research and her decades of reporting on Mexico and the border into a gripping narrative about greed and corruption. Bloodlines offers us an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Zetas and US federal agencies, and opens a new vista onto the changing nature of the drug war and its global expansion."

Tatum, who currently stars in Logan Lucky and the upcoming Kingsman: The Golden Circle, is also attached to a Gambit film that hasn't been talked about much lately.

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