Apart
from
red
carpet
and
movie
premieres
on
opening
day,
the
Cannes
Film
Festival
2015
also
made
a
big
announcement.
Luc
Besson's
EuropaCorp
announced
Wednesday
in
Cannes
that
it
will
finance,
distribute
and
co-produce
Pablo
Escobar's
biopic
'Escobar'.
The
movie's
cast
was
also
announced.
Academy
Award
winning
stars,
Javier
Bardem
and
Penelope
Cruz
will
be
starring
in
Pablo
Escobar's
biopic,
Escobar.
Luc
will
co-produce
with
Pinguin
Films
and
Dean
Nichols
Productions
on
this
biopic.
Based
on
Virginia
Vallejo's
2008
best-selling
Spanish-language
memoir
Loving
Pablo,
Hating
Escobar,
Spanish
director,
Fernando
Leon
de
Aranoa,
will
write
and
direct
the
biopic.
Courtesy
of
Twitter/Dave
M.
Benett/WireImage
Javier
Bardem
will
play
Pablo
Emilio
Escobar
Gaviria
aka
Pablo
Escobar
who
was
a
wealthy
Colombian
drug
lord
and
an
exclusive
cocaine
trafficker
who
died
in
a
shootout
in
1993.
The
movie
will
show
the
rise
of
Escobar
as
a
drug
Lord
and
produced
byDean
Nichols,
Javier
Bardem
and
EuropaCorp
CEO
Christophe
Lambert.
Bardem
and
Cruz
had
worked
together
previously
in
"Vicky
Cristina
Barcelona," for
which
Cruz
won
a
best
supporting
actress
Oscar
award.
Bardem
has
also
worked
with
León
de
Aranoa
on
"Mondays
in
the
Sun."